Kalaupapa and the Exodus

This is our last full day in Hawaii! And we are ready to blast out of here! We had an amazing time in Molokai at kalaupapa. It was especially amazing because it may change a lot in the next 5-10 yrs. When the last of the patients die, they do not know what will happen to the place. Right now 17 patients live there and about 80 other people there as medical or park service staff or relatives. There are no roads in and they get a barge of non perishables, fuel and furniture and such one time a year. Perishables are flown in weekly. It was like going back in time. We saw Father Damiens grave. I think it topped mauna kea as my favorite island experience. We are so glad we went.

Now to the bad part...after Molokai we came back only to be completely scammed by our property management company. We woke up at 6am to start cleaning our unit. Our walk thru was at 930 am. We were told that the walk thru was to check for damage. We've been painting and cleaning and had our mainfloor carpet cleaned...basically we've been working on this a lot. And our unit is clean, I still needed to dust baseboards and blinds and oven. But we cleaned the cabinets, I scrubbed the bathroom tub, shower and floor on my hands and knees for 2 hours. The guy came and basically told us our apt was dirty and that our stuff was everywhere so he couldn't even do the walk thru. There were two boxes and two suitcases and some kitchen stuff we are donating out. He was a total jerk to us and told us we were going to has to have it professionally cleaned to get our deposit back. Of course the only person he trusts to do such a job quotes us $550. If we clean it ourselves we will still end up with them coming because we have no ladder to reach the air conditioning vents and fans to clean. Also we cannot remove the long term hard water stains with anything other than industrial cleaners which we cannot get. Basically we are paying for the guarantee. The cleaning lady guarantees we get our deposit back. Of course we will never even see if anyone cleans it. They probably just split the money and laugh at us. But we cannot handle it anymore! We are just ready to get out! I am so tired of the "this is how we do things here"! I want to be with Midwesterners! So basically, we spent hours cleaning, we still have to pay to clean our unit, then we get to michigan and clean some more!

Look out mainland, here we come!

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