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...want to see the Hawaiian countryside in its full, unobstructed beauty, the Big Island of Hawaii is where...
There are two main "cities" on the Big Island--Hilo and Kona. Kona is where that great Hawaiian coffee comes from, and is a much more popular tourist spot...
Basically, Kona is a shopping village. There are tons of little shops where you can buy anything from postcards to those tacky flower shirts and shorts that all Hawaiian toursits seem obliged to buy at some point so that they can be instantly identified by local Hawaiians in case they get lost...
There are four or five resort hotels, most of which are newly built, along the beach north of Kona. They cater specifically to the tourist who wants luxury, scenery, Hawaiian culture--essentially nothing that resembles city life...
Oshman's, a Houston-based sporting-goods chain, has a shop in Harajuku that sells everything from $320 Eddie Bauer jackets to Hawaiian surfboards at $785 each. Only about 30% of Oshman's goods are made in the U.S., but the feeling in the store is as relentlessly American as Beach Boys music and suntan lotion...