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In Search of Adventure and Moments of Bliss: Maiden Voyage |
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This is a couple who has always lived on the edge and has been challenged to explore new frontiers. Embarking on an adventure at sea, these former entrepreneurs are surprised to discover higher highs and lower lows than the rollercoaster corporate world from which they had escaped. The circumnavigation propels them out of the fast-paced fields of human genetics and biotechnology into the vastly different life of cruising. They had expected the circumnavigation to be a means of being independent and in control of their own destiny, but they encounter many riveting situations where they are clearly not in control. Lois Joy Hofmann author website Buy the book at |
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Lois Hofmann writes in a first-person style as if she is on location sending stories from the front in real time. Stories often begin with the date, location, and—for the nautical buffs—latitude and longitude. This all-encompassing book combines personal memoirs with stories about local cultures and customs, geography, catamaran sailing, and over 150 extraordinary photographs of their travels. Buy the book at |
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Although more of a personal odyssey than a how-to book, readers can still learn much about cruising that Lois and Günter learned by doing:
All this is punctuated by magazine-style sidebars for each country visited that provide educational historical and geographic facts from around the world. |
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Pacific Bliss Maiden voyage Photogallery Sample just a few of the extraordinary images captured from around the globe! |
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Lois Joy Hofmann retired after a 35-year career in advertising, marketing, and management. Then she sailed around the world with her husband, Günter, for eight years, visiting 62 countries. Intrepid adventurers, the couple now embarks on more conventional travel with the goal of understanding countries and cultures that they omitted the first time around. When not traveling, Lois resides in San Diego, California, where she enjoys writing and photography. 
Lois Hofmann sailed around the world with her husband, Günter, for eight years, visiting 62 countries. She describes the couples’ first voyage from France, where they built their catamaran, to their home in San Diego—a gripping physical, intellectual and emotional journey—in Maiden Voyage, the first book of her trilogy, In Search of Adventure and Moments of Bliss. 
Every year, four times more adventurers climb Mt. Everest than complete a circumnavigation of the globe.
