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Like so many others I ran across this site while searching for more information about Hawaii.
It was my wife's lifelong dream to visit Hawaii and so for our 10th anniversary last year we visited some friends on Hawai'i.
The islands are all that I've been able to think about since then. I believed I'd been to some beautiful places (and they still are) but somehow Hawai'i took the sheen off of almost everything I'd known and loved before. It wasn't just the ocean, I'd seen oceans before and just hadn't been touched.
It was little things: a converstion with a man making a fishing net at the Botanical Gardens. When he told me I could fish like that too I was excited like a kid. Taro fields. The market at Hilo. The color of the tomatos! Mochi rice in a banana leaf-better than a candy bar.
Hawai'i is the only place I've ever been where I knew that, once there, I'd never need to go anywhere else ever again. I've been on the move since practically my first breath so that was almost overwhelming.
I'd bought some "Hawaiian" music before we left but afterwards I realized that I didn't know my ear from my elbow in that regard. Now though, here in the house, mostly we listen to nahe nahe style but other kinds too.
Even my old daydreams and goals are gone now. I don't miss them all that much, I just try to think about Hawaii on its own terms.
Glad to be here. Not sure how much I'll be posting but I'd like to hang out anyways.
Clay
It was my wife's lifelong dream to visit Hawaii and so for our 10th anniversary last year we visited some friends on Hawai'i.
The islands are all that I've been able to think about since then. I believed I'd been to some beautiful places (and they still are) but somehow Hawai'i took the sheen off of almost everything I'd known and loved before. It wasn't just the ocean, I'd seen oceans before and just hadn't been touched.
It was little things: a converstion with a man making a fishing net at the Botanical Gardens. When he told me I could fish like that too I was excited like a kid. Taro fields. The market at Hilo. The color of the tomatos! Mochi rice in a banana leaf-better than a candy bar.
Hawai'i is the only place I've ever been where I knew that, once there, I'd never need to go anywhere else ever again. I've been on the move since practically my first breath so that was almost overwhelming.
I'd bought some "Hawaiian" music before we left but afterwards I realized that I didn't know my ear from my elbow in that regard. Now though, here in the house, mostly we listen to nahe nahe style but other kinds too.
Even my old daydreams and goals are gone now. I don't miss them all that much, I just try to think about Hawaii on its own terms.
Glad to be here. Not sure how much I'll be posting but I'd like to hang out anyways.
Clay
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