A trip to Kona

A wind storm had shut down Kaui, Maui, Molaki, and Oahu, but the Big Island/Hawaii didn't get much but rain, and good waves. We left our two dogs behind, them staring at the sheep through the fence, and thinking whatever it is dogs think. To go to Kona you travel up to 2500 + feet and then come down through a set of curves that are a joy to ride on a motorcycle, ending up on the west side/leeward side of the island where it most always is clear, or clearer than where you been. My wife has cancer, stage IV, and has been living with this for over a year. We talked of life, death, the spirtual dimension that's everywhere, and how to keep the pup from shitting all over the house. My wife is a Christian and I'm not, so we have some differences, but at heart all spiritual jouneys end the same place. (Suddenly a Christian flies out of the closet and tells me he's going to heaven because of this and that, and i'm not for the same reasons. Blow me. ) Before Hawaii we lived in Alaska, part of the time in the villages in Western Alaska, and part on the coast, Seward. We loved it until the last year or so and were sick of the rain/ice/up down weather of the coast, and the same stuff of life over and over. We talked of how cold it is there now, and how difficult to keep our home warm at -20 since it the place was so barnlike. Sometimes we call up friends in Alaska, and if on the beach have them hear the waves. It's our way of making people miserable. We have been in Hawaii 5 1/2 years, and prior to the cancer setting in had ridden over 35,000 miles around and over the island on a Harley and a Honda. We use to go to the beach a great deal more, and other physical things that we're shut out on at present. There is a sense of gratefulness that comes to us, it's like it's on tap somewhere and we only have to think of it, or desire it and the feeling and wonder of it come to us.
In Kona we did a Costco and Home Depot run, then rode back home past the lava fields, and, to the left, a sweet looking ocean that was cracking waves out on the shore. Kind of dull sounding I guess, but that's it.