How did we end up here?

The seeds were planted about 9 months ago. One one of our first nights out in Durham, a classmate of mine encouraged Andrew to apply for a job with the National Park Service that had landed her in Hawaii the previous summer. While that job possibility with the NPS didn't pan out for Andrew, he quietly worked behind the scenes to get to Hawaii one way or another. He emailed every single land trust in Hawaii with the hard-to-resist offer of free labor. Scott Fisher from the Maui Coastal Land Trust (MCLT) was the first to express interest in Andrew's talents and, in the short version of the story, funding was secured from the Sussmand Fund, and after nearly 24 hours of traveling from North Carolina to Maui, POOF! We're here!

Of course, I'm leaving out many of the stressful logistics of making arrangements to move here temporarily - the sublease, the transportation dilemma and, of course, my employment 'situation' and the nagging feeling I might be acting irresponsibly by not jump starting the rest of my life. But now that we're here and acclimating, those stresses seem trivial and NC like a distant memory (although a round of chigger bits on my legs is a CONSTANT reminder of life in North Carolina!).

So here we are - Wailuku, Maui. 82 degrees and sunny. Stay tuned.