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Rickinnc I don't even know the woman, but then again, that's what go-fund-me is about. I gave them a thousand bucks.
When I was a teenager, I worked at a local marina as a dock hand with an all-female team when visitors would come into our marina and dock for a few hours.
One of the weekend visitors was an old retired cop who'd always show up in a vintage wooden mahogany boat from the 1920s. He had a son in his mid-30s who rode a Honda GoldWing with his wife.
The old cop would always lecture me at the dock to never get on a motorcycle for as long as I live, even as a passenger, though he never knew that at my age of 16 at the time, I rode a Yamaha trail bike to the marina every Saturday from my parent's farm about 5 miles out of town. I would just do as he said and pretended to be taking his advise since he never actually saw where I'd park my own bike.
Anytime his son would come to visit him at the marina, he'd show up on his Honda with his wife where they'd all agree to meet for coffee every Saturday morning. Walking to the coffee shop from the dock, the old cop would always plead with his son to ditch the Honda and buy a car ..because he'd seen way too many bike incidents in his 35 year career as a highway patrol cop.
His son would always ignore his dad, laugh about it, but then his dad was sad the whole time they'd be there having coffee together.
One Saturday I showed up bright and early for work at sunrise and saw the old cop's boat parked there already! ..except it had a 'For Sale' sign on the windshield, but the old cop wasn't around. Evidently, he'd parked his boat there on the Friday before the weekend and made arrangements for the marina to sell it for him.
I asked the marina owner (a woman) about the boat at the dock that's up for sale? She told me that the cop's son and his wife were touring the mountains in western Canada on their Honda GoldWing when they blew a front tire while going through a winding mountain pass, lost control of the bike, got drawn off into the ditch when they left the asphalt and then hit the vertical rock face alongside the edge of the highway at about 60mph, according to the eyewitness following in a logging truck.
The son and his wife both died at the scene, but then the bike caught fire after it side-swiped the vertical granite rock face and burnt, leaving nothing recognizable except the rear chain sprocket. Anything made of aluminum was burnt and gone.
Upon receiving the news of his son and his wife's passing, the old cop put his boat up for sale and I never saw him again. The old cop had a premonition about his son and I knew it, but he never said it out loud.
