At first sight I would have said that my book “Malama” now published as an e-book on www.thereismoreinlife.com has started this famous December 31 of the year 2007. But actually it has started years ago, when, in a workshop, I heard some seemingly unspectacular words that stuck in my mind.

If you are afraid of something, do it! There is a great lesson to be learned.

I started thinking about my biggest fear and found out that it was about travelling all alone. I love and always have loved discovering other countries and people, but living in a couple I never had to bother about the how.

At this moment I realized that, living on my own by then, I avoided places I did not know and always returned to the same spots. Sure, I had my excuses, too expensive, too far away, no time … and yet it was my fear holding me back.

So I decided to go on a really big voyage, the place farthest away from me … Australia!

Great decision, so I started looking on Internet for airfares, the most interesting towns and so on.

And then, something very disturbing happened. Every time I entered some place or town in Australia, a completely different part of the world popped up, always the same.

Again and again, as I entered Sydney, Queensland or the Great Barrier Reef – the website appearing on my screen was – Hawaii!

I had never dreamed of Hawaii, did not know a lot about it, just that it’s a chain of islands in the Pacific and there I was, looking in amazement at these pictures. It was as if a big finger was pointing out again and again where I had to go.

And I obeyed! I gathered the necessary informations and booked my flight, not knowing that long years and many wonderful experiences later I was going to write a book about this island, the whales, dolphins and the Aloha Spirit of the indigenous people of Hawaii.

Life took its time and gave me all the experiences I needed to follow the path shown to me.

…..to be followed