Why here??

[Lin W]

I'm here because I got my bluff called. I was looking to move out of SoCal and whining to a friend that if I just had the money I'd move to Hawaii but until my house sold, I was stuck, couldn't do a thing. He said he'd loan me the money and I could pay back later. I'd never been to Hawaii, had not a clue what I was doing but, after a few false starts, I put an offer on this house sight-unseen, over the internet, and it was accepted. That started the clock on six months of putting the animals through quarantine, weeding out my stuff, aloha garage sales, booking movers and shipping my truck - y'all know the drill. I arrived here exhausted with just a suitcase and a cat (dogs were waiting at BarKing). My life was in a metal box on a freighter somewhere out in the Pacific. My SoCal house fell out of escrow three times before a sale finally took. Stress! Things improved after my container and truck arrived, but for the first three months I was miserable, thought I'd made the worst mistake of my life. Then something just clicked and I realized I was quite enjoying it here. That was going on 10 years ago now and I'm still happy as if I had good sense, this is home and always will be. I wouldn't recommend my method, but the result worked well for me - best impulse buy I ever made!




I am so much more like I am today than I ever was before!