There are many things I love about kona. One, I love that EVERYONE pulls over for emergency vehicles. Aloha spirit is a team effort thing: if someone needs help everyone helps by not slowing things down.
Things I don't like: vog, vog, and vog.
When I get up for an AM shift, before the wind pulls he sulfur gas over here. Kona is beautiful. A big mountain covered in green, up against an open seascape. You can see every kind of tropical bird or plant. Truly lovely. But around 11 am the vog rolls in. Sometimes so thick it looks like a storm cloud hellbent on blocking out the sun (but trapping in heat). It changes Kona from a lush island to a fairly dark grey hill with almost no visibility.
Then, come 6 pm, it's beautiful again.
Now, it's not always like that. Some days it's clear round the clock. And sometimes it rolls in while we are sleeping.
The worst change it has made is to my health. Constant sore throat, shortness of breath, coughing stuff out.
Now. It started to spew from the volcano randomly. In the 80's. It could possibly stop all together one day.
The whole vog issue may change our minds about going through with buying a home in kona right now. On the downside, if a doctor can't help me, we'd be committed to living somewhere bad for my health. On the upside, if the vog decided to quit it's nastiness one day, I would be happy and healthy AND my home will triple in value.
Decisions decisions...
Guess it's a moot point for now til we hear from our #1, which is a short sale.
--Nat
P.S.short sale is real estate jargon for "half of all eternity."
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