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And now on a positive note: What I like about the Big Island.
The way folks stop and talk story, everywhere, no matter what they doing. The different kind of folks and the way we can kid each other about being Haole, Japanese, Portuguese or whatever. Mother earth doing her thing to the max. The rain!
How bout you?
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The trees, the ocean, the community... the small stores and the chance of bumping into the same people time and again, building a community bond.
I also love the fact that Hilo is just a hop skip and a jump from Pahoa, offering the bigger stores when needed... but going back home in the forest is quite fascinating and refreshing to say the least!
~ Rachael
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My neighbors, Punaweb, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, the Red Road, and the rain forest, just to name a few.
Cheers,
Jerry
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The weather & all of the different climates on this one island... that you can go to just about any weather you want, if you don't like it where you are, you can go a bit, and find a change to something else (big difference from Chicago area, where the weather comes to you.... if you don't like it now [even if you do like it], wait a bit & it will change to something else)
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What Carey said! And...the different cultures - learning how other people do things and what's important to them.
Malasadas. Don't forget Malasadas! (Crivello's [sp?] has good malasada up Komohana, and I DO love the ones from Tex - Bavarian Cream....yummmmm, M-a-l-a-s-a-a-a-d-a-s...DOH!)[
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Carrie Rojo
"The sun and moon collide. Isn't gravity a funny thing? The universe explodes apart. All the children sing..." Todd Rundgren
Carrie Rojo
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future..." Galadriel LOTR
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Hapuna Beach, Imiloa Planetarium, the University Of Hawaii Hilo, coffee, driving up 14,000 feet to the top of Manua Kea Volcano at night and looking at the stars , Volcanoes National Park, sunrise in Puna, sunset in Kona, having lunch at the Bamboo in Hawi, mac nut ice cream from the Mauna Loa Mac Nut Plantation, Ken's House of Pancakes, tropical plants and trees, the climate..... and the list goes on....
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LOL.... its not Dallas.
Transplanted Texan
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I do not believe that America is better than everybody else...
America "IS" everybody else.
The Wilder Side Of Hawaii
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The weather, the tropical feel, plants, the fear of lava and earthquakes (makes me appreciate life a little bit more!), all the people I have met, and GUAVA SMOOTHIES!!!*
*above list is not in any way comprehensive!
Puna: Our roosters crow first
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