volcanoes g got sick on the drive from kona to volcanoes park. we thought he was just carsick and he'd be okay once we stopped driving. the stretches of road across the lava fields were pretty straight. the stretches in the populated green sections were pretty twisty. the large crater was closed. it was spewing noxious amounts of sulfur. so we hiked across the smaller caldera. which is pretty cool. it's a very nice scale. it's big. but not incomprehensibly big. the first part of the trail followed the caldera edge. and i do mean edge. it sure looked like it was a drop forever straight down. i have atypical acrophobia. i can do loop-de-loops in an airplane. i can technical climb a 700 foot rock face without batting an eyelash. put me in a building near a railing more than one story up and i start to freak out. like paralyzing fear. put my beloved wife or kids near an edge and i freak out the same way. that part of the hike was kinda stressful for me from time to time. we hiked back across the floor of the frozen lava lake. which was pretty cool. we bouldered up to check out the steam vents. apparently, natural formations don't trigger my panic attacks. weird but true. g yakked again. at this point we started to think he was actually sick and not just car sick. the boat people who noticed had lots of advice to offer. none of it useful. our attitude changed from, suck it up wimp, to, storm on little trooper. b needed a rest room. so his boy scout conditioned legs hiked us back up the caldera wall without so much as a water break. sheehs. g promptly fetaled and wouldn't move. the rest of us ate lunch and took turns dodging the elderly to see the kinda cool lava tube. g slept the whole way home. fortunately. and was mostly recovered by dinner.  ¶ 8:00 AM