So Hunter grows up to age 5 in Disney World and to age 10 in Hawaii. Spoiled brat.
Maui has one comic book store, the main place to purchase things is a Costco, but we'll be an hour away from even that level of urbanization. We're going to be on the resort side of things. We visit in two weeks, but I'm imagining International Drive with a beachfront. And I hate the beach.
Now I really, really want to move there. I do. But I really, really, really like being negative as well. It makes you seem prophetic when the inevitable doom starts rolling in.
I've been researching like hell all the great things about Maui and Hawaiian life from Pidgin to poke. But I wanted to make a list of all the things I'll miss about Orlando while I'm on a tiny island in the Pacific, 3000 miles from anything else. See, this way, if it all falls through, I can look at this list as all the reasons I should be happy we're staying.
- The lack of beach
- Comic book stores
- Something to do after 8pm
- Readily available supplies for any adventure
- Driving for a really long time
- Pokemon Go
- The ability to make an ass of myself and never see the same people again
- The buffet of culture - not delicious, but there's something of every kind
- A choice in medical and psychiatric care
- My friends. HA! No, fuck those bastards.
- Karaoke every night of the week
- Corona Cigar Company
- Orange Blossom Pilsner
- Bars with passwords behind bookshelves
- Pub crawling
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Wah Lum Kung Fu Temple
- Good schools
- Lazy Moon pizza
- Tijuana Flats
- Jeremiah's Italian Ice
- Churrascarias - where the Brazilians feed you meat on swords
- Mall graveyards
- Disney World, Universal Studios, Legoland, just all the tourist attractions
- Teaching motorcycle riding
- Semi-monthly visits with Mom
- Christmas dinner with In-laws (they're delightful)
- Oh god... Publix. Subs, wings, cleanliness
- The Ravenous Pig
- The Meathouse
- Easy-to-score freelance writing gigs
- Variety on GroupOn
I thought there'd be more but a large chunk of my loves of Orlando were eliminated as they are probably available on Maui (Asian food, local art) or they were examples of things I just like to hate (Full Sail, bad drivers) or both (tourists, heat).
Here's things I'm looking forward to in Maui.
- Island time
- Tourists
- Heat
- A focused epicenter of culture
- New foods and new ways of eating
- New friends that don't know I'm a horrible person. Yet.
- Halloween is apparently a big deal
- Goat farm - milk and cheese
- Living with less
- More time with Kiri
- International vacations - it'd cost half as much as coming back to Orlando than going to Japan or Australia
