On Saturday, the 18th day of November, I was at a grand business seminar that was conducted by my uplines, the honey fountain group ventures. I had a great time there and left the place feeling rejuvenated. I began looking at how I had conducted my honey parties (business opportunity presentations) and the different things I learnt, that would correct the mistakes I made. Well that’s not what I’m focusing on. If you are really interested, you can get a lot of valuable information at the honeyfountainblog.com.
One of the independent product consultants told us of her experience at the Vision Retreat in Hawaii. It was a wonderful experience. She was sponsored by Tahitian Noni International; the Access Marketing company we work with. It’s something I’d like to also experience for myself. I did a research on the Hawaii Islands because in a short while, I’m gonna take a vacation and I wanna spend it there.
Hawaii is the most remote island chain in the world. It has over 2,000 miles from the nearest landfall. The distance makes for splendid isolation – these Polynesian islands are removed from all else but one another.
Hawaii consists of eight major islands plus 124 minor islands, reefs and shoals, strung like a necklace across the Pacific for over 1,500 miles.
The eight major islands (which make up over 99% of the total land area) are:
Hawai’i (also known as the Big Island)
Maui
Kaho’olawe (uninhabited; temporary residential facilities)
Lanai
Moloka’i
O’ahu
Kaua’i
Ni’ihau (privately owned).

Each of the major islands has an identity all its own. Oahu is as different from Molokai and Maui as Kauai is from Lanai and the Big Island – each as varied and colorful as the official state flower, the hibiscus. With their collective mass of 4.1 million acres or 6,450 square miles, these islands form the fourth smallest state in the United States.
Beyond mere geography, to Hawaiians the land is “mother”. The Hawaiian word for land, ‘aina, literally means “that which feeds”. It doesn’t belong to us; we belong to it, and are part of it.
The newest island in the chain, Loihi, is forming – the newest land on earth, about 30 miles southwest of the active volcano Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii. Stretching toward the northwest from Loihi are the other major Hawaiian Islands: Big Island, and then Maui, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai, and Niihau.
James Michener, “Hawaii’s real flowers are its people.”

Hawaii is probably the only place in the United States, if not the world, where every single racial group is a minority – one of the world’s most harmonious gatherings of people. At least a third of the population is of mixed ancestry. According to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a study conducted in 1984 estimated that there were only 8,244 pure Hawaiians – about 0.7 percent of Hawaii’s total population – a vanishing race. Today, in 2006, some think the number could be less than 5,000.
In 2003, Hawaii’s ethnic population roughly broke down as follows:

Unmixed (except Hawaiian): 739,890 (60.5%)
Caucasian 286,727 (23.5%);
Japanese 203,963 (16.7%);
Filipino 162,542 (13.3%);
Chinese 47,609 (3.9%);
Black 11,587 (0.9%);
Koreans 10,236 (0.8%);
Samoan/Tongan 17,226 (1.4%)
Mixed (except Hawaiian): 223,901 (18.3%)
Hawaiian/Part Hawaiian: 258,490 (21.1%)

Jack London, “- with Hawaii it seems to be love at first sight. Those for whom the islands were made, or who were made for the islands, are swept off their feet in the first moments of meeting, embraced and are embraced.”

Remember…it’s much harder to be a traveler than a tourist. A tourist seeks only an escape that fades – a traveler’s reward lasts a lifetime!

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