Honey, Let’s Move to Rarotonga. Okay, Dear.

I didn’t get the sense that Carla Sinclair and Mark Frauenfelder set out to inspire readers when they wrote about their unlikely move recently from Los Angeles to tiny Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. But it’s hard to read their piece in this week’s LA Weekly without concluding that you can do anything you set your mind to, as long as you accept that there will be wrinkles along the way. The idea for the move was hatched while they were hanging out in a Los Angeles coffee shop, engaging in their annual New Year’s Day tradition of setting goals for the coming year. “We both felt like we were in a rut, and with a new baby due in a few months, we knew that rut was sure to become deeper,” they write. Then Carla offhandedly suggested they move to Rarotonga, a place they’d visited 10 years earlier. “Maybe it was Carla’s pregnancy-induced hormones or the first throes of Mark’s midlife crisis, but the idea of moving to an island in the South Seas didn’t sound as preposterous as it would have at some other time,” they write. And so they did. At the time they wrote the story, they’d been living in Rarotonga all of 10 days. Their tale is terrific, and fortunately for readers, future installments are on the way.

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