05-17-2006, 04:57 AM
After reading so many different and interesting things about Puna, we knew we had to come and see it for ourselves. We were in puna last week and we did really, really like it. I found the areas that are considered to be lava 1 very peaceful and pleasant, actually. Maybe this sounds naiive and dangerously innocent, but it felt like home to us. We live on Maui right now, and there is a slickness -- a shiney sexy social scene that we don't jive with much at all. We love Maui of course, for it's beauty and magic - but it's not a realistic hawaii to us. Our little house on the cliff at the edge of the jungle is fantasy land... but we're running the money-work treadmill and trying to consciously raise a five year old. We were drawn in by the Puna area very sweetly and we're excited. Certainly buying land in Lava 1 feels like a big phat question mark -- my thoughts are swelling with intermittent panic about a steam vent opening and killing all of us, or just flat out losing all of what we've worked so hard for. Hawaii has always given us such immaculate beauty along with hearty ass kickings. I don't expect the big island will treat us much differently. Somehow it is always worth it.
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