Heatwave & Shit

The latest heatwave has now stretched continuously for nearly two months. The stifling heat required the extensive use of the small air conditioner in the mausoleum at the “old folks home” in Waikiki. Yeah, global climate change wields its ugly head!

Waikiki is a shithole anyway. Some kind of “scorched earth” event needs to be staged to raze the entire cesspool. Incidentally, the Food Pantry has been demolished to make way for a high-rise “affordable” apartment complex. What a joke! The Food Pantry, dumpy and expensive, was the only supermarket in Waikiki. Now everyone must shop at the detestable ABC Stores. Oh, the horror!

King’s Alley has also been demolished to make way for another gaudy and cartoonish high-rise hotel. Oh, the cheesy tourist grotesquerie just never ends! It just gets more tacky and tawdry with each iteration. There’s just no way to describe the ruination of Hawai’i.

There are days that the motorhomeless future is looked upon as sheer genius. Other days, it’s just damned stupid. Sometimes the vacillation between the two thought extremes approaches a mind-boggling fever pitch. The oversized cranium is clearly overburdened.

There has been some frantic, albeit sporadic, on-line searches for housing as well. Of course, once the realization was made that all rental housing options are fucked up, there was the inevitable reconsideration of the saner motorhomeless option.

A useless trip by bus to the Autosource dealership in Kaka’ako was made on Friday to inspect a 2011 Chevrolet® Express extended passenger van. It was not in the condition as advertised on the on-line listings. No further interest will be invested, although that particular model is built like a battle tank.

At this point in time, there is now a possibility that the Ram® Promaster cargo van will be the favored candidate for a homeless motorhome. It is the only make that has a really short 118-inch wheelbase option. That makes it at least 12 inches shorter than the shortest Ford® Transit models. It may also be less expensive. The only drawback is that the Promaster has received less than stellar reviews.