I am sitting, watching the ocean. It’s so beautiful with it’s different shades of blue. I listen to music with my headphones on.  I feel the wind on my face.  I close my tired eyes as people drift past me, walking through the resort and enjoying their vacation. As I relax, eyes closed, getting into the rhythm of the beat of the music playing in my ears, I smell the ocean.  As… Read More

I am standing in Kona de Pele Cafe on Ali’i Drive in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i. I am waiting for my wife’s chai to be made. We just ate a good breakfast at Bongo Ben’s Island Cafe. Satiated, I look out to the ocean water of Kailua Bay. The light blue of the clear water denoting a sandy bottom ripples up and down next to the deeper blue water covering the black lava rock…. Read More

I love Kona. I was just driving through the district of South Kona and it is so green and so very beautiful. When you drive south from Waikoloa Beach, driving through the lunar landscape which is the lava fields, you eventually pass Kona International Airport (KOA) to your right. The airport looks over the water as it is situated next to the ocean on the west side of The Island of Hawaii…. Read More

In the wee hours of the morning all is still, all is quiet. In the wee hours of the morning the moon is setting and the sun still sleeps. The geckos have not warmed their cold blooded bodies, the clouds are still dark all in anticipation of the new morning’s show. The birds start the show with an early morning song. They call to the sun stating that it’s time to wake up, time… Read More

My wife and I met 11 years ago and we are finally enjoying living the life of our dreams. Travel has been something we have never shied away from. In fact we both believe in taking around 2 months off each year. And we have. My previous career allowed us to do that. It allowed her to not have to work and me to take as much time off as we could… Read More

My wife says I am walking like a duck since I hurt my back. She says I walk like her Uncle Donald.  Evidently, he had back challenges as well.  I think she is funny. I check out the way I am walking.  She’s right.  I am walking like a duck. Last year Leise and I purchased the Skechers Shape-Ups walking shoes. They are designed to tone your body, straighten your spine, give… Read More

An acquaintance of mine was asking me this morning about sales. She just started in the industry of sales and said she didn’t know anything about sales. I was dumbfounded. Things which I take for granted and thought everyone knew, I find out they don’t.  I told her it’s like dating. I asked her if she had ever had a relationship with someone. She said yes. I told her, “Then you have… Read More

We are at a party today celebrating with some friends and I am grateful for my belief system.  We are enjoying a wonderful meal and playing some games at our good friends house. I just finished a discussion with a sociologist who is here. It was most interesting. I love listening to the world views of sociologists. They have studied things I haven’t. They have the facts, figures, and data that I… Read More

We can officially say we have friends in high places.  Growing up in San Diego, California I knew I would someday own my beach house and my mountain cabin. In San Diego you live at or near the beach. The proximity of the ocean water makes you relax as the smell of the salty sea air permeates your clothes, fills your day, and the warm light breeze caresses your body.  As you… Read More

I am truly grateful. I feel I came a long way last night.  As I have mentioned before, my vision of moving to Hawaii is something like a Hollywood movie. I arrive. I learn the native language, their customs, their dance, their chants. Then the king comes down and greets me as one of their own. Their after I am Hawaiian. I learned that I can never be Hawaiian, because I have… Read More

When I used to do sales… A typical day would be… I get up and I am all excited and very positive minded about how I am going to help the world. I would go out and talk to everyone I know and anyone willing to listen.  If I was not talking to someone and pushing myself to talk to the next person I had feelings of inadequacy.  As if I should… Read More

It’s 12:09pm and there is no boat. As I look over at the Body Glove Cruises sign it indicates the next boat is at 7:30am. Since we know that we were scheduled for around noon time today, a short quick little panic goes through our mind as we wonder if we missed the boat. Then I realize that the sign is probably from this morning’s excursion and they didn’t change the sign…. Read More

I’m sitting in Kona, in Target, at the Starbucks coffee shop. Leise had shopping to do and I had some paperwork to finish.  Asking if they serve Kona coffee here in Kona and being sadly disappointed, I ordered a coffee anyway. Just in case it sucks I order a small. Literally, my thinking was if it sucks I can always find a good cup of joe just about anywhere within spitting distance…… Read More

There are daze that I think about writing and I stare at my iPad. Daze like today. I purposefully use the spelling d-a-z-e instead of d-a-y-s, because that is what I feel. I feel I am in a daze, trying to think of something witty to say. Maybe something empowering. Maybe something great or lofty. Then my brain starts to hurt so I stop thinking. Like right now…. Then all of a… Read More