Author: Jill Meinecke
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A Hawaiian Hui Hou
I left the Big Island to travel to the mainland to see my sister who just had a baby. I am an auntie for the first time! It’s a boy: Thorston Sanderson Kozak Grosse, 9 lbs, 5 oz., given life the au natural way. I had to say goodbye to the Big Island and the…
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I live in the jungle
I live in the wild west. I live in the jungle. I’ve called Puna district of the east side of Big Island Hawaii for the last four months. Life here is much different from any mainland city I either lived in or was a surburbanite of. Puna district and Hedonisia Hawaii, where I’m working and…
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Life as a full time traveler
I’ve been traveling full-time for almost eight months. I’m humbled by all the experiences I’ve had. This has been the best year of my life in so many ways. My mind’s been opened to the big wild world, and it’s love, my friends. Couchsurfing around the world, camping on remote beaches and calling wherever I…
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Chilling on the Kailua-Kona Coast
Wait, what just happened? It’s been an epic few days of traveling and celebration here on the Big Island. After all, Fourth of July fell on a Wednesday, so the weekend prior had to be a time of getting out there and seeing a bit of the island. Some friends and I were supposed to…
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Bounty: Hawaiian Style
Today my friend Matt and I traipsed through our neighbor John’s property for some harvesting. Among other things, he has a plot of land that’s full of macadamia nut trees, pineapples, bananas, oranges, lemons, grapefruit, kumquats, coffee trees and rainbow eucalyptus trees. Among all of those goodies that we harvested and brought back to our…
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Nature loves courage
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical…
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Enjoying the fruits of my labor
Well, I became…ahem, distracted from my round the world trip. I originally started this year with stars in my eyes about seeing the entire world. I had this vision of my mind of showing up on my parents’ doorstep with a suitcase slapped with stickers from other worlds, proudly proclaiming, “Well, I’ve seen everything!” That…
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The scary ocean critters of New Jersey’s beaches
I’m reminiscing today of the time I spent living on the east coast. I essentially made it my bitch, spending every day off from the restaurant I had foraging, exploring, finding new hiking trails, beaches, hidden swim holes, you name it. A friend came and visited me in Philadelphia for the summer and we spent…
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Jet lag drag
I just arrived back to Hawaii after a long, arduous day of traveling from east to west. As I was dropped off to the airport with my sister and her boyfriend at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, she was flying east to Philadelphia. We parted at the gate at six a.m. and I knew she and her…
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