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Location: not sure, but there's a hell of a lot of water around here!
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If moving here, and you want the ultimate in old time Hawaiian tacky, period stuff, you not only require a Hula Girl lamp, but one that actually does the Hula, light goes on and the Wahine moves back and forth!!! Quite the rage in the early fifties, and the originals aren't cheap. I'm saving up for one....kind of....You need one of those Kani!
Thanks for all the tips (especially the hula lamp - how cool!). I think we actually want to drive across country - kind of like seeing it all one more time before heading away for a long time. And it sounds like the cost to ship a car across country is as much, if not more, than across the ocean from CA to HI.
We do want to bring our cats, but that will be difficult to time. I have been told that none of the airlines that fly into HI will permit cats in the cabin, and as a result they won't take them during the hottest time of the year (the hold can get too hot). I'm still looking into it. The quarantine thing (i.e., avoiding it by microchipping/rabies testing) isn't too bad, if you pay close attention to the time limits and allow plenty of time for testing and so on.
We are paring down our belongings (had a killer yard sale last week, planning another bigger one for the spring) as much as we can. We are lucky because a lot of our stuff folds (e.g., folding chairs for dining table, folding bookcases throughout the house), or just isn't necessary to take. On the other hand, some of the older larger power tools we probably can't afford to replace (band saw, table saw, drill press), ditto for aged wood and rare vintage guitar parts. Paring down the library will be tough, but I'm ready to do it. I figure I'll start posting things on "paperback swap" soon, send out as much as I can (racking up credits), then order books with all my credits after I get to HI. (If you don't know about PBS and you are interested, email me.)
Finding a home for our 8' boa constrictor might be difficult, but taking her just ain't an option! We'll do our part to keep Hawai'i snakeless...
Location: not sure, but there's a hell of a lot of water around here!
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Nothing to do with moving, but there was this really popular strip club, frequented by mostly military guys, down in Honolulu on Hotel Street in the 60s and 70s called the Club Hubbahubba. They had a new stripper fresh from the mainland, and much to the suprise of the management, on her debut night she walks onto the stage with a boa constrictor!!!!!! Needless to say, her act, and the snakes, was very short lived!!
Best of luck on your move.
Its probably a good idea not to ship your car from the east coast. Two of my friends just moved here (Kauai) from Jersey and it took more than 2 months for her car to arrive. The shipping company said 4-6 weeks but it was almost 9 weeks!
Yeah, I just can't see paying someone over $1,000 to drive my car ( no one else drives MY car!!!!), or carry it on a truck, so I can *also* pay over $1,000 for the family to fly to CA, when the car can get us all there for a bit less money, and with a chance for my son to peep at the Mississippi River and the Grand Canyon on the way (or do we take the northerly route? hmmmm...) I know it's a few miles on the odometer, but not enough to stress about, IMO.
Yeah Sweetbeet, driving cross-country sounds awesome if you have the time - you get to see so much and then you also get to use the money you would've spent on trucking it (or whatever) for something else. I wish we had been able to spend the time driving to California and shipping the car from there when we moved - I was on a really close timeframe for a new job and we had to find an apartment and everything else before I started work. . . .
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no one else drives MY car!!!!), or carry it on a truck, so I can *also* pay over $1,000 for the family to fly to CA, when the car can get us all there for a bit less money, and with a chance for my son to peep at the Mississippi River and the Grand Canyon on the way (or do we take the northerly route? hmmmm...) I know it's a few miles on the odometer, but not enough to stress about, IMO.
