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About Me

Aloha out there! My name is Rachael Gerkensmeyer and I currently live on the Big Island of Hawaii. I moved here with my husband and 16 year old son about a year and a half ago, leaving our family and friends in Washington and California (we moved from Oregon). I’ve lived all over the West Coast of the mainland… when I say all over I mean:

I was born in California and lived in places like San Diego, Concord, Martinez, Novato, Redding, Stockton, Lodi and San Rafeal. I’ve also lived in:

Utah

New Mexico

Colorado

Las Vegas

Washington

Oregon

There might be more… no I’m not an army brat. I don’t have a good reason for the way we moved growing up, I can tell you I moved to Hawaii for the entire life changing experience! We live where it rains a LOT, something most people have a hard time imagining. We also don’t have any white sand beaches on our side of the Island. To get to the closest one of those, we drvie about 2 hours. But we’ve got the coolest snorkeling spot on any of the Islands in my opinion, right down the road (about 20 minutes away). We also have access to black sand beaches, rocky coastlines that are GREAT places to hike- not to mention gorgeous.

The atmosphere is definately one that promotes living a healthy life as long as you’re in the right mindset. Like anywhere else, we have our fair share of problems.

Anyway, life is great most of the time! Now it’s time to make it all complete by getting healthier and losing this last 74 pounds that’s holding me back from so much like surfing, and feeling GREAT.

I look forward to blogging a lot about my journey, and if you’re reading this I’d like to say thanks for dropping by and sharing with me.