Travel is

Travel is.....

Always an eye-opener. In this case, I met Suzanne Somers, the 63-year-old actress/entrepreneur/activist who brought 500 supporters along on the five-day cruise aboard MSC Poesia.

Somers, whose new book "Knockout, Interviews with doctors who are curing cancer and how to present getting it in the first place," a controversial way of looking at the dread disease but a look her followers are eager to take. The book, released last month, is a best seller and one of some 18 books she's written. Her first was a book of poetry she wrote in 1980 and read from on the Johnny Carson "Tonight" show.

Somers played the role of ditzy blonde Chrissy Snow on the 1970s television hit "Three's Company." She left the show and says "and it forced me to reinvent myself."

Suzanne Somers is anything but ditzy. She is a brilliant marketer and a bright woman who has taken her own medical experiences - and research she'd done earlier on alternative cancer treatments and the doctors providing those alternatives - and reached out to thousands of men and women all over the globe. During the five-day cruise she conducted several lecture sessions and had some of her physicians speak. Her advocacy of bioidentical hormones for women has been accepted by many and their testimonials are riveting.

I can't say I accept all her theories, but the concept of recreating one's persona is one concept I hang on to.

She's an interesting woman. I spent a couple of hours with her and consider myself lucky.

That's the serendipity of travel.