It all started when my wife (Kathy) and I decided we would want to have a home in the Hawaiian Islands in which we would spend part of our retirement (scheduled to begin in 2022).  That was about 10 years ago after we had made several trips to the islands.

 

Our daughter was about 2 years old when we traveled to Maui for a professional meeting.  She loved the warm ocean water and my wife and I loved the tropical setting.  It was one of our best vacations for us with our young daughter.

 

My wife had spent part of her youth on Oahu where her father was stationed as a Marine.  I had visited the islands once as a young teenager with my parents and siblings.  From different experiences, fondness for the islands had been implanted.

 

 

Daughter Andrea at the airport on the Big Island

Daughter Andrea at the airport on the Big Island

Our next visit was also for a professional meeting on Kauai.  We were enamored by the island and its relaxed atmosphere.  About a year later, we took my wife’s parents and aunt to Kauai with us on a trip in late 1996.  Great memories and lots of fun.  The Hawaii longings started then.  It wasn’t but about a year later we bought a Marriott timeshare at their Kauai Beach Resort on Kalapaki Beach in Lihue.  Within a year or two of that purchase and a couple more trips to Kauai that we came to the decision to have a home on the islands.

 

We wanted to make sure that Kauai was the choice for us so we systematically looked at Oahu, Maui, Hawaii (the Big Island) before confirming that Kauai was for us.  We had always gravitated toward the North Shore of Kauai.  Yes it was more rainy, but so lush and tropical.  The waterfalls, the rainbows, Hanalei Bay, the Princeville Resort all drew us north – it was decided – North Shore of Kaui and so began the search.Namolokama Mountain Range and Hanalei Bay

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