No matter where you want your life to go, you will be rooted to where you are unless you are willing to leave your mind behind.

I have done a fair bit of travelling—much of it to isolated Paradise islands. 

This was another Paradise Island, but this one would be different.

I know where the island dream came from. Around age 12, I was with my family watching a travel show on TV while foul winter weather hammered against the window. And then...