When you're excited to get away, you may want to shout it from the rooftops. But letting strangers know your house will be empty sets up an easy target for burglars.
Gwen Rains dreamed of venturing beyond her mobile home, her unyielding religion, and her landlocked Arkansas town to head off to the sea. Eventually, she did. In the frigid Alaskan waters of March 2008, she found herself and almost lost everything.