Post #56312 by Hina on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 2:06 PM

I suppose I am one of the lazy/busy ones. I work an 8-5 job where I find that while I can pop in from time to time to see what's new, I just don't have the time to keep up by participating with intelligent and informative posts. I'll try my best with this one since I'm on my lunch break. :)

While I have been enjoying the conversation here for a long time and using this forums "search" function for acquiring information constantly, it wasn't until after attending the Shag/ Disneyland event and meeting several people in line who belonged to this list that I felt like joining the party. The gang here seems like a fun, witty and intelligent group.

What I have found since then is that I just don't have the time to keep up properly.

Perhaps being landlocked in AZ is another issue. I am so envious of the So. Cal tiki culture. We are very lacking in tiki here and perhaps I just haven't found that core AZ tiki group yet. Instead, I live vicariously through the gang here and in the mean time, I am creating my own little tropical oasis in the desert in my own backyard.
Besides my tiki ventures while on vacation to California, Florida and Hawaii, that has to be enough to satisfy my tiki cravings for now.

I guess I would hope that because some of us don't have posts into the hundreds or thousands, that doesn't automatically make us not deserving of calling ourselves Tikiphiles. The core group here does offer those of us who are lurkers and rare posters an extremely valuable bank of information that I hope continues for a very long time.