"Remote" Punaweb party?

[punagirl]

Hey Art. It is a great idea. You might even want to throw the invite out on some of the other Hawaiian forums. We started doing parties like this in Atlanta about 5 yrs ago and I have made tons of friends through it. There are three couples that we met through these parties, David M & Sopie are one, which have remained our good friends to this day. We have watched about 40 people go through the process of considering or planning the move. It has been quite a learing experience to help pack their containers, visit when we are on island (& some even insist we spend one night of our trip at their house) and listen to their "what they would do differently" tales. Through this group that has already moved we have networked and will know lots of folks once we make the move. Funny, they all say they miss me terribly but none of them are sending checks my way to help get my renovations on my house here finished so I can move! I have to mention this as well: Two of our closest friends, Rick & Mike of Hilo just live a few blocks away here in Atlanta. I drove past their house every day on the way to work. We met them at one of the Punaweb/ Konaweb in Atlanta parties and found out we have mutual friends and had actual met at a friends house years before. Another couple that used to come to the parties (they moved to Kona) lived 10 houses away from us. We never knew them until I gave them directions to a Puna/Konaweb in ATL party. Funny.

You will have a great time and make some great friends. And you can talk about Hawaii all you want and nobody will mention how expensive it is, you can't buy land there etc!!

Atlanta/Pahoa