Travel Series
How A Vacation to Maui Changed Our Life Forever
We had no idea that our trip to Maui would be a life-changing experience.
When my husband and I arrived on Maui to celebrate our tenth anniversary in May of 2001, we had no idea that vacation would change our life forever. Our time there was wonderful beyond belief. We loved Maui so much that we started discussing the possibility of moving there on the plane ride home.
By November of 2002, we had sold our home in Pennsylvania, quit our jobs, and relocated to Maui. That move required us to get rid of our furniture and many other possessions. It also entailed a cross-country drive to Seattle so our car could be loaded onto a barge and shipped to Maui.
Why we chose to move to Maui
As I said above, our vacation experience was wonderful beyond belief. We knew that living and working on Maui would be quite different from vacationing there, but still felt called to move to Maui for multiple reasons:
- We were tired of having to scrape ice off of the car’s windshield and shovel snow each winter in Pennsylvania.
It also sometimes got unbearably hot during the summer there. Year-round temperatures in Maui’s coastal areas typically range from the low sixties to high eighties, which seemed ideal to us.
