THE SELF-STORAGE HAWAII UNCONFERENCE
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THE SELF-STORAGE HAWAII UNCONFERENCE
A Gathering Like No Other In A Place Like No Other By Tron Jordheim
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he 2021 Self-Storage Hawaii unConference took place in October of 2021 on the Big Island of Hawaii. Our host hotel was the beautiful Marriott Waikoloa beach resort and spa, which has lovely pools and a beautiful beach in a shallow calm bay. It’s just a lovely place. We’ll be there again in 2022 from Oct. 17 to 21. We have some amazing hotel rates that you can take advantage of for several days before and after the event, so you and your loved ones can take in the beauty of the Big Island and collect some of the Aloha Spirit. We had people join us from many states in the U.S. Because of COVID, unfortunately, we could not have international guests join us. And because
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of COVID, we were limited to the number of attendees by the COVID prevention rules that the county of Hawaii had in place. But nonetheless, we had a fantastic time because of a few things. This year, there are very few COVID precautions in place, and we hope it will stay that way.
Great Opportunities The unConference is set up to create lots of great opportunities for solid networking, making new contacts, catching up with old friends, and enjoying activities you’d probably never have a chance to do otherwise. We also have some great content, curated by some very smart and very kind people.
We started the 2021 unConference off with a tour to the visitor center on Maunaloa mountain, which is not quite all the way to the top, to view the night sky. Our timing was a little bit off, because there was almost a full moon, so it was a little hard to do stargazing. But I have good news for 2022: It should be a fairly dark night for our stargazing adventure for the 2022 unConference. It will be just amazing to see the sky there. The Big Island of Hawaii is one of the best places in the world to view the night sky. That’s part of the reason why there are so many observatories on the island. At the height of the visitors center you are above the clouds, and
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