Friday I returned the car to the airport, and puddle jumped on go!Mokulele over to Kona. Lots of downtime in the airport. Discovered that somewhere along the way my suitcase gained six pounds, and also snapped part of its frame or something - one wheel is no longer correctly aligned, making it hard to roll.
Kona is deep into earth tones - lots of brown rock, with very blonde grass, and white rock graffiti - I haven't checked on the rules, but it appears that the locals leave various memorials written using blanched rocks from somewhere or other amid the more natural brown.
Checked into my room, and while I think the "full ocean view" part is questionable, on the whole I'm really happy with the room. One memory I had forgotten was hotel rooms designed to carry breezes through them - here, I have that, with a breezeway door I can close instead of the main door, and then the screen doors on the balcony.
Two surprises for me at the hotel - you get to it by turning landward off the highway (the drive doubles back under the road to the beach) and the lobby is on the 8th floor, with the hotel growing down from there to the beech below.
January 17, 2010 1:23 AM
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