Off to Hawaii

Hi everyone, so this is my first post and it happens to be on the eve before my journey to Hawaii! I’m very excited… the snow has begun to fall in Vermont and the temperatures are dropping and sunshine and beaches are beckoning. The fact that I have a one-way ticket makes it even better. I can completely skip winter this year if I want to.

So what’s in Hawaii? Good question. Lots of palm trees and fresh fruit. But here’s the real story. A very good friend of the family (Karen) was visiting one afternoon and mentioned that she had just bought her annual plane ticket to Hawaii to visit her three brothers, two of which live on Maui and the other on Kauai. In passing, I joked that I might tag along seeing as I had just graduated from college and had no real direction in my present life aside from working minimal (and boring) hours at a local coffee shop and taking aimless walks in the woods. Karen thought that was a grand idea and soon we were both hunched over the laptop searching for cheaps airfares to Hawaii. We found some good fares and I reasoned that since I made one impulsive decision, why not make one more? The next day I had a one-way ticket to Maui.

I’m still not sure what I’m going to do once I get there, but my plan is to visit as many islands as possible and experience as many amazing things as I can while spending as little money as I can get by with. I might even pick up some odd jobs on an organic farm or restaurant to feed my bank account. But for now, I’m just happy to take it one day at a time and today, that means finish packing and enjoy the warmth of the wood stove.