East Coast Kahuna

Pleasures of Fall Weather

Fall is my favorite season of the year. Unfortunately, you never get it in Hawaii. Cold, brisk mornings. No more high humidity. The bugs are finally getting killed off with the frost, albeit only for the season - they come back in the spring (although in Hawaii, they never go away).

In Hawaii, how do you escape? Find places with air conditioning. Why go outside in the heat when you can stay where it's air conditioned - cool and lower humidity. Go to a movie - most movie theaters are air conditioned. Lots of restaurants are also - and it's gotten better since they stopped allowing smoking in restaurants (something that New York did earlier). stay in where it's air conditioned is a luxury.

In Hawaii, most houses don't have airconditioning (or heat) - always having trade winds going through the house, so that keeps thing more under control temperature wise. But theirs always humidity and the resulting mildew. You have to have screens to keep the bugs out. And since the windows are usually open, you get a lot of dust, demanding frequent sweeping and mopping.

And another benefit that you have here in New York - the fall colors. The leaves are beautiful. But then they all fall (that's why it's called Fall). In Hawaii, there's nothing like the amount of leaves that you have to rake up here on the mainland - one drawback, but I still think it's worth it. I think it does the tree well to have the trees flushed out every year - and there's fewer places for bugs to live.

posted by tjh14850 @ 9:36 PM