End of the Road & Rainbow

We went looking for the end of the road.

We drove up to the tippy tippy northern point of the big island today. Since we're staying on the western side of the island, the Kona side, we set our sights on the Pololu Valley Lookout, a spot where the road literally ends.

It was a lovely drive for an afternoon adventure. During our little road trip, we came across a private beach, a dead pig, a field of wind turbines, free fudge, an organic macadamia nut stand and a statue of King Kamehameha.

We drove with the top down in our rented convertible. This made it easy for us to catch some rays while we watched the terrain change from fields of nothing but black-black lava rock, to high mounds of earth covered with rainforest vegetation.

And finally, the road dead-ended at the edge of a cliff, the land beyond it too dense, too deep and too undeveloped to offer much in the way of potential highway construction.

We admired the view and then turned the car around, heading back toward our rented digs.

Our mountain top road was so high up that we were above the clouds. And as we descended, a rainbow formed above us and we found ourselves looking - literally - at the end of the rainbow!