After a full 18 hour day of traveling (Hannah Boggard is a star for driving me to the airport at 5 a.m!), I made it to my two-week home on the big island. I was welcomed by the farm owners, Bobby and Ming Wei, and their intern Yan. Incredibly enthusiastic and passionate, Bobby started to fill be in on life on their little piece of paradise, while Ming Wei offered me polenta and chick peas with sweet/hot thai sauce. yum.
I was ready for bed the moment I arrived, but they advised me to wait until after 9:00 so I would adjust to the time change. "It will be good if you are very tired, because the pigs, cows and roosters can be very noisy during the night,"Yan told me as he led me to our camper. Yan is a 6'6'', 27-year-old, incredibly thin Slovenian with chin length hair, a charming accent, and a knack for hitchhiking. I would pick him up. :)
We walked through the dark along some treacherous trails, and up an excessively steep hill to get to our beds. I got a bit nervous when Yan said "Try not to step on the two middle logs - they're starting to split," as I walked across a gorge on a rickety bamboo bridge. With my bags putting me off balance...it could have been the end of me.
After simultaneously stargazing and using the outhouse, I collapsed into bed in the tidy camper. It is UNREAL that I am actually here.
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