I’m “old”???
If your older than the girl, then yes you qualify![*-)]
Slightly older than her. Significantly younger than you. 
My friend who lives in Molokai pointed out that just outside the pilot’s side window on short final is where the Caravan ditched last year. He was on that same plane a day earlier, in the same seat as the passenger who took this video: http://abcnews.go.com/US/harrowing-video-hawaiian-plane-crash-inside-cabin/story?id=21484715
Kalupapa is a beautiful, but truly odd place. The entire peninsula is its own county, one of the smallest by population in the country, and the state’s head of the department of Health serves as the mayor. The less than a dozen patients that are still alive spend more than 50% of their time in medical facilities on Oahu. The remaining 75 or so residents are is some way related to either current or former patients, and while they live rent free and are free to come and go as they choose, it is a spartan existence, with limited contact from the outside world. The only ways onto the peninsula are subsidized airline service via Cessna Caravan, a monthly supply boat, and access to the rest of the island by mule up a switchback to the top of the cliffs. The mule rides are primarily a tourist attraction; most tourists take the mule down, and fly away from the airport after their tour.
Non-residents are not permitted into the village unless given permission by the department of Health, unless you are on a paid tour. This includes not only the settlement, but the entire peninsula, perhaps the only such National monument in the country.
No one seems to know what will happen once the last Hansen’s patient passes away. The National Park Service administration may protect the area from development, but it won’t likely chart a future for the people who choose to live there, nor can the state justify its expenses to support the residents once the patients are no longer around.
Correct in all, except for one difference. You are allowed to land there, and use the terminal, you just can’t wander off past the do not cross line into the village. The airport manager and his assistant, as well as the Dept of Health administrator are super nice people, and welcome pilot visitors.
The rule is simple: half your age plus 7 years. Perfect!
Thanks Bill. Yeh, I wonder what Richard Marks would have prescribed after the last Hansen’s patient passes away. He certainly would want some permanent reminder of the harsh history of the place. But he was always the entrepreneur and would probably encourage some new path, maybe development. But Kalaupapa is so remote it is hard to see much actually happening in the foreseeable future.
Are you young enough to be able to cope with was this lady does???
