With Neptune, Poseidon and Mother Nature

In this paradise, be prepared to tango with your surroundings

I am hardly an inveterate traveler who has sampled the golden sands of the world's best beaches, I am not exactly adventurous or athletic, I have lived the entirety of my 36 years in cities, I wear thick glasses and I have never learned how to swim.

And yet here I was sitting on a speedboat after arriving in the Maldives at midnight being taken from Male International Airport to the Sheraton Hotel on Full Moon Island, where we would spend the night.