Guess I’m just grasping at straws. I don’t know Dunham’s travel habits at that time. I just assumed that when she left Indonesia, she did it for good and too both children with her and had not set foot in Hawaii before that time.
No she'd already sent Barry back to Hawaii well before then. But after living in Hawaii for a bit, she went back to Indonesia, many times, for research towards her PhD in Anthropology, and later for her work, which was pretty much a contintuation of her PhD work.