I am 31 and married to Curtis. Curtis is my best friend. We have been dating for over half my life now and in October we will be celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary.
We both grew up in Sonora, California and we have spent the past two years working for Landmark in San Francisco, California.
We visited Maui in 2008 and promised each other we would live here someday. 2008 was a difficult year for both our families and Hawaii fell back into our minds. We went through many changes together, including our wedding on 10-10-10.
In spring of 2011, Curtis had one more class at Columbia College. The college didn't have enough students registered to provide the course. This went on every semester until 2013. In April of this year, Curtis and I began working for Landmark in San Francisco and we moved to the Bay Area, with the support of my sister Lisa and her husband Joshua.
Although our jobs were wonderful, we wanted to be in Maui. So we decided to see now much money we could save together. We saved a thousand dollars in two weeks. We both submitted our resignations at our jobs in September, effective the following March of 2015. We bought our one way airline tickets to Maui before Halloween.
Over the next six months, we tended to the following:
1. Save $10,000
2. Sell anything worth anything
3. Donate excess items to charity
4. Complete living in California, including saying goodbye to our work family, parents and siblings. We also threw two parties to provide people with opportunities to say goodbye to us, one in the Bay Area and one in Sonora.
On March 18, we had moved our things out of the room we rented in Pittsburg and were managing last minute details.
On March 24, we stay stayed the night at my friend Shanna's house. We received a text that my Suzuki Samurai was ready to be picked up in Kahului, HI.
ON March 25, Shanna drove us to the airport and we flew to our new home. When we landed, we caught a cab to the port of Kahului to pick up our car. We drove to the hotel, dropped off our things and went to the beach. I thought "I am tired and the water is too cold." But I went anyway and got in. The water was perfect. Everything was perfect.
Over the next few days, we swam everyday at Big Beach on Makena Beach. We swam with turtles. At the end of each day, we would drive to Life's A Beach, a local bar, to have a Mai Tai. Eventually Curtis would perfect his Mai Tai and we would make them at home. We spent every day looking for a new home.
On Tuesday March 31, we met Phil McGain, a local Ironman and kite boarder/maker. He had a room for rent in his home. When we wet to his house to meet him, we were blown away by the location and the atmosphere. We are happily renting from him now. We both recommend him as a place to stay on your visit to Maui through AirBNB. He's a gracious host and provides comfort and clean environment.
More Maui to come.
Aloha.
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