James was the perfect host, contacting us in advance to make sure we found our way to the house and settling us into the rustic rooms on the hillside among the trees. We enjoyed his custom-cooked breakfasts, which featured coffee that he'd personally grown (in Kona, of course), advice on where to find the best beaches, and equipment (boogie boards, masks, etc.) The main room was open (and screened) on three sides, so you really had the sense of being in the trees with the birds, frogs, and crickets. There's a little creek that runs past the house, which sounded quite tropical when there was a flash flood. The neighborhood's feral pigs ran past us, too. You can "get away from it all" on this hill above Kailua-Kona development.