Introduce yourself

[Johnd]

Hello everyone, my name is John and with my wife Nancy we count 28 years in Hawaii. Althought we lived mostly in a small "sugar" village in the Hamakua, we have been in Puna for the last 8. Raised our kids here, in those days when a white boy and girl would come home everyday from school with bruises from punches, and just very few local kids would be allowed by their families to come to our birthday parties. Nancy and I farm our land and like to think that we independent of the grid; we threat lightly on this earth. We grow food and orchids in our lovely place. Nature itself is the only thing that still keep us here, but we are getting old and have too many booboos and sometimes the racist rants start to get under our skin, so we have decided to throw the towel in and retire in lovely Norfolk in the UK. It is going to be hard leaving behind the land, and the peace we have here, but having a decent hospital and medical care available to us has become an important necessity. Before we both get old and craggy we want to live in a cosmopolitan society and have access to a wide variety of options like municipal running water, a decent public transport and a pro active community where we are not called "foreigners" when we park in the "wrong" place. Unfortunately, our kids have no desire to come back to Hawaii given their the bad treatment they endured for years. One is a scientist living in the Ecuadorian Amazonia, and the other lives in Paris working as a graphic designer. We hoped that they would want to preserve the land that we worked so hard for all this years, but they could not care less to even visit this place. Several folk have made offers to buy our place but we keep making excuses to elongate our time here. No regrets, bittesweat memories, and whole lot of hard work ,our dear coqui frogs singing the night, our wonderful neigbors in Puna... all die hard haoles with dreams....which we dearly hope they become true to them.

jdo