HAWAII: Saying goodbye to my postage-stamp sized piece of Hawaii
Dec 2014: University of Hawaii Forestry Professor JB Friday helps me nip an invasive albezia tree in the bud UPDATE: December 2024: The end of an era. I no longer own my sliver of fern-covered lava in Hawaii. It's been 18 years since I signed on the dotted line with a vague dream of following the flip-flops of my friend Ann Kobsa, whose 99.9% sustainable life in the Big Island was the initial inspiration to take the plunge (scroll way down for the lowdown on that). But here I am, clearly a city mouse, because the closest I ever got to moving there was... well, talking about it. But, over the years, it gave me a wonderful excuse to visit IMO "the best place in America," where the sun and rain are free, where you can technically live under a tarp year round... the closest you can get to "true survival." Who doesn't secretly romance being off the grid? Over the years the cost of holding onto this 8429 sqft, pizza-slice-shaped lot land rose...