07-05-2006, 07:00 AM
Hi Lenny,
You will be fine when you get here. I always tell people that you are basically going around the island or up and down a mountain.
Some driving habits catch people of guard. Passing on the right is very common if someone is waiting to turn left just about anywhere. So while you are waiting patiently for the guy to turn, everyone behind you starts passing you on the right. That can get sketchy if you don't pay attention.
As you drive around take a good look at the landscape around you. Trashed out yards and neighborhoods are a good "unwelcome" sign.
However, there is a difference here between a neighborhood with an abandoned car here and there and one that is trashed. None of us like to see junk cars but they are a part of the landscape in some of the less populated subdivisions. Heck there are junk cars all over the place.
Its strange actually, I drive buy cars on say the upper hwy between Kona and Waimea that appear to have broken down. I figure someone owns it, it isn't a total piece of junk. The next day it is vandalized and it just sits there...forever! Who is the owner? Why don't they call a tow truck before it is vandalized? I will never know
Puna is a different bird. Follow your instincts and you will be fine.
“They are so perpetually alarmed with the apprehensions of these and the like impending dangers, that they can neither sleep quietly in their beds, nor have any relish for the common pleasures or amusements of life.” Gulliver’s Travels
You will be fine when you get here. I always tell people that you are basically going around the island or up and down a mountain.
Some driving habits catch people of guard. Passing on the right is very common if someone is waiting to turn left just about anywhere. So while you are waiting patiently for the guy to turn, everyone behind you starts passing you on the right. That can get sketchy if you don't pay attention.
As you drive around take a good look at the landscape around you. Trashed out yards and neighborhoods are a good "unwelcome" sign.
However, there is a difference here between a neighborhood with an abandoned car here and there and one that is trashed. None of us like to see junk cars but they are a part of the landscape in some of the less populated subdivisions. Heck there are junk cars all over the place.
Its strange actually, I drive buy cars on say the upper hwy between Kona and Waimea that appear to have broken down. I figure someone owns it, it isn't a total piece of junk. The next day it is vandalized and it just sits there...forever! Who is the owner? Why don't they call a tow truck before it is vandalized? I will never know
Puna is a different bird. Follow your instincts and you will be fine.
“They are so perpetually alarmed with the apprehensions of these and the like impending dangers, that they can neither sleep quietly in their beds, nor have any relish for the common pleasures or amusements of life.” Gulliver’s Travels