I’ve always wanted to live in a shack by the sea and now I do.

I’m writing and sleeping in an off-grid cabin, surrounded by trees, on a mango, papaya and coffee farm.

Never been happier.

I’m in Hawaii I have nothing to complain about.

Here’s what I do every day, awaken to birds serenading me after hearing ocean waves crashing in the distance all night long.

Walk 50 feet or 20 meters to our community kitchen, make a fresh cup of Kona coffee, (I’m in the center of the finest coffee bean estates in the world) and then walk 30 meters (90 ft) to see the Pacific Ocean outside my door.

Bliss.

After deciding yes, the waves are calm enough I get into my bikini and go see if the wild dolphins have turned up to swim in Kealakekua Bay here on the Big Island. They birth and nurse their babies right down the street.

My hut gets wifi but I can’t clearly connect with Skype. Oh well. Gotta get in the car to go Skype.

Same as India. I had to walk by the Ganges River avoiding cow flops to get to skype there at night.

But without the cow shits. It’s clean and pristine here.

If you really wanted to live off the land here on the Big Island without cash you could.

But I like to eat yogurt with fresh papayas in the morning and macadamia nuts sprinkled on top so I’m shooting, writing, and leading retreats here in paradise.

My work is my play.

Join us to swim with wild dolphins in July with me. Check it out here.

http://vagabondtravelmag.com/dolphin-and-photo-safari-hawaii/

Sure, you can spend a fortune living in Hawaii but if you want to hear ocean waves crashing every night, and live simply then you too can live in an off grid cabin. But you have to be on the island to get it so farmers and owners can check you out.

You can find care taking jobs, house-sitting gigs, or for about 15 thousand $ you can move here and get a car and apartment but you know it’s also fun to drop out of the sky and see if this will all work — living off-grid and finding out if the communal thing is a yes.

My four walls are my own. No one above me but tree limbs and they did have to be cut back. It sounded like a horror movie in here every night. Couldn’t sleep a wink with clawing tree limbs on my roof.

But with dolphins for neighbors and birds singing all day what more could you want?

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