Ah Kauai - my new home

Some of you know that I moved to Hawaii, some of you will be learning about it with this blog post.

Madison, Fleur, and I left Santa Fe, NM on April 14, 2008. My neighbor and friend, Ginny Boylls, decided to go along with us on our drive to drop the Saturn at the Long Beach shipping port for its voyage to Nawiliwili.

We then planned to spend 4 days in San Diego, me for R&R before the plane trip on April 21st, Ginny to catch up with her friends from her and her husband's 35 years of living in San Diego.

Madison, Fleur and I flew to Honolulu on Monday, April 21st and sailed through animal quarantine service, stayed at the airport hotel and got to Kauai the next day at noon. We rented a car for 2 weeks, and went to stay at a VRBO (Vacation Rental by Owner) cottage with Kauai Dawn. www.kauaidawn.com

Ah, peace and relaxation-friendship-aloha spirit, connection-information rest and happiness.

Madison and I went for a walk on the beach at Kealia, found food shops, did our laundry, and started to look for a place to live.

We found one in Kalaheo and rented it for 6 months - bottom 1/2 of a large home in a new neighborhood with magnificent homes, my 1/2 is a 1-bedroom, brand new, with a large lanai (portal to you New Mexicans) that overlooks the ocean and black mountain on the left.

The lanai-portal faces the South East and Sunrise is wonderful. Fleur gets me up to see it each morning and we sit for an hour with tea for me and a comb and brush for me to groom the spots she can't reach. Then its Madison’s turn for his hour and then it’s turn for my hour...Bliss.

It's easy to go to the beach here, you just pull off the road and stay for an hour or so. I find it similar to going to a park back east or taking a hike in Santa Fe. I am learning to be a more outdoors oriented person after growing up and living in cities for most of my life!

Madison would like you to see his new friend, Peggy, a scarlet Macaw. She has a funny trick. She shimmies down her pole and sneaks around behind him to peck him on his back, then she goes back up on her perch and actually laughs at her own trick. Here is a picture of Madison telling her just what he thinks!