[Milsurplus] Last Komments on Hawaii

[Hue Miller]

My last komments on Hawaii, promise. Hawaii actually has the greatest 
longevity of all USA citizens.
You quickly notice that people are friendly and relaxed. Even in higher 
traffic areas no one's out to
kill you for some mistake; not like Seattle, for example. Highway posted 
speeds are lower, tops 55,
some are 35 and 45, and the "float factor" where people drive above the 
limit seems lower than
mainland also. You can live comfortably with a $30 total wardrobe and you 
can find many places
to eat healthy. You see the greatest diversity of anywhere in the USA, I 
believe, and it's swell to see
TV newspeople looking just like, and dressed like, your neighbors you might 
see on a hot day at
the store.  But - if you move there, unless you are really well set up, 
you'll have a lot less square
footage to store your BC-610s and T-368s and all.  I think you could forget 
scrounging for more
cool gizmos; forget the large hamfests that continually churn up interesting 
equipment and tidbits.
That's the price of living in (near) paradise. As for literacy, I didn't 
mean people have not learned to
read; it's just that there's a surprising, to me anyway, lack of used 
bookstores, which I guess to me
is kind of a barometer, along with the kind of stuff that shows up at 
Goodwill stores. ( Not as bad
as El Paso, Tejas, which sounds like the nadir of literacy in North 
America. )  As for having one's
gear go to landfills after one checks out: not wanting to rekindle any bad 
feeling here, but - my
feeling is for ANYthing of value, someone out there is going to value it, 
and go for it. Really -
no one at the Army-Navy surplus store wants it, or knows someone? No 
volunteer at the military
museum collects militaria, or knows someone who collects militaria? 
 Really - cannot think of ANY
leads to follow out?  I don't believe it. -Hue Miller