Maui

We're moving to Maui.  Two Orlando-loving semi-adults and a Disney kid. (probably, it's not locked in yet, for five ish years)

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.

1. The lack of beach
2. Comic book stores
3. Something to do after 8pm
4. Readily available supplies for any adventure
5. Driving for a really long time
6. Pokemon Go
7. The ability to make an ass of myself and never see the same people again
8. The buffet of culture - not delicious, but there's something of every kind
9. A choice in medical and psychiatric care
10. My friends.  HA!  No, fuck those bastards.
11. Karaoke every night of the week
12. Corona Cigar Company
13. Orange Blossom Pilsner
14. Bars with passwords behind bookshelves
15. Pub crawling
16. Dungeons and Dragons
17. Wah Lum Kung Fu Temple
18. Good schools
19. Lazy Moon pizza
20. Tijuana Flats
21. Jeremiah's Italian Ice
22. Churrascarias - where the Brazilians feed you meat on swords
23. Mall graveyards
24. Disney World, Universal Studios, Legoland, just all the tourist attractions
25. Teaching motorcycle riding
26. Semi-monthly visits with Mom
27. Christmas dinner with In-laws (they're delightful)
28. Oh god... Publix.  Subs, wings, cleanliness
29. The Ravenous Pig
30. The Meathouse
31. Easy-to-score freelance writing gigs
32. 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.

1. Island time
2. Tourists
3. Heat
4. A focused epicenter of culture
5. New foods and new ways of eating
6. New friends that don't know I'm a horrible person.  Yet.
7. Halloween is apparently a big deal
8. Goat farm - milk and cheese
9. Living with less
10. More time with Kiri
11. International vacations - it'd cost half as much as coming back to Orlando than going to Japan or Australia