An adventure traveler finds that even rest can be an adventure on a shady lanai on Hawaii’s garden isle, Kauai.

I flunked jump rope in 7th grade and washed out of college PE. Exotic travel was the stuff of dreams for a klutzy bookworm like me. After college I took off for San Francisco and a career in corporate public relations. Vacations meant time with family back east or sunning on Mexican beaches. Then I married Jack, took tea with erstwhile headhunters in Borneo and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. But at 48 I was zapped by a stroke caused by an obscure and unpronounceable autoimmune disease called Antiphospholipid Syndrome - APS. continue reading

An adventure traveler finds that even rest can be an adventure on a shady lanai on Hawaii’s garden isle, Kauai.

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