"Most men would kill to have their own island, " claims Wally Gudgell of Gudgell Properties, which specializes in Washington's San Juan Islands.

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Kicking back, Jannard pulled away from day-to-day management and went fishing from his home in the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington.

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Jannard pulled away from day-to-day management and went fishing from his home in the San Juan Islands off the coast of the state of Washington.

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Mary Kay sold the home in 2000 in her efforts to downsize, and now the current owner, a Dallas physician, is following suit and hoping to move to the San Juan Islands.

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Dyslexic like his dad, Craig struggled with school but showed early self-confidence. (He piloted the family yacht through the San Juan Islands when he was only 14.) In August 1969, when Craig was 19 and a sophomore at Stanford University, his father died of heart failure.

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Weaving its way through a maze of broccoli-coloured islands in waters where Orca whales can be spotted during the summer months, the journey crosses the invisible frontier between the urban frenzy of Seattle and the soporific rhythms of the Puget Sound, the inland sea in which the San Juan Islands are located .

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