Their friends warned them. Colleagues offered alternatives. Her mother tried to talk her out of it. For twenty years the couple had thrived floating between campuses ships and ports but geography was about to become their destiny. The happily married middle-aged couple had only lived together for eight years yet had been married for twenty. Joe and Paula Martins marriage had succeeded even though Joe was away at sea for months while she taught at Juniata College. After decades as captain of sea-