DREAMS DON'T EXPIRE: The Journey to Eden's Door
Literature
2024
A self-described dreamer and doer who believes “Dreams have no expiration date.” I nurture a lifelong dream to spend the last chapters of my life in my father’s birthplace, Tobago, and spent 50 years benchmarking Tobago against countries and places I visited on five continents.
Re-live my adventures in 1984, flying and camping through the Australian Central Desert with new-found friends, on a Cessna 172 Skyhawk. Visits to Indigenous sites in Australia and purchasing Indigenous art called Dreamings. An art collector and opera lover, you will vicariously experience my appreciation of Egypt’s architectural wonders, the works of renowned Renaissance artists at the Louvre in Paris, Sistine Chapel in Rome and my enthralling connection with Michelangelo’s David, in Florence. Feel my fearless joy in snorkeling for the first time, in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, my delight in operatic performances at La Scala, Italy and Sydney Opera House, Australia. My courageous treks across the dirt roads of Liberia and Sierra Leone to introduce Internet-delivered education will move you. My story culminates when I accidentally find and buy land in Tobago that has been in my family for 100 years. At age 65, I break ground and convert this tropical forest in Tobago, into a nature park called Eden’s Door, thereby fulfilling my lifelong dream.
