08-10-2006, 06:53 AM
Wow! Thanks to all of you who responded! I look forward to meeting such fabulous neighbors! My mom & I will be in Puna September 3-6, money in hand to buy some land! Still haven't settled on a subdivision yet - really like the seclusion, yet paved roads of Fern Acres (2 acres), the extra acre (worse roads though) of Hawaiian Acres - and need to look at Orchidland, Ainaloa and anywhere else with 2+ acres that you can recommend! We want to buy 2 side-by-side lots. My mom and I are both from a small town in Shell Lake, Wisconsin (northern Wisconsin) where no one locks their doors and you can leave the keys in the car with the car running and know it will still be there when you come out of the store or wherever you parked (running, to keep the heater on during those frozen tundra winters!) I've escaped the cold for 10 years now in Honolulu and now it's Mom's turn...