Carole J Hall and her husband have raised four children. During that time, she worked in Architectural drafting and design and built with her husband using their own labour several new houses in three states of Australia. She is proud of the fact that all the children have been successful in their lives. Then she and her husband sailed the world in their Bavaria forty-seven-foot yacht unassisted calling into ports around the world, working in countries that they were allowed to support their travels over nearly five years. She feels that after going through storms and checking into countries where no English is spoken at all, bartered over the price of a tomato in the pacific islands nothing can frighten her, weather or man! Her support base is her children. She has now retired to write in the last home she designed, and now longer goes cruising coastal or over oceans.