Robin Elder was born in Washington DC, but grew up in north Florida and then eastern Tennessee. In 1983, just one week out of graduating from the University of Tennessee, she drove to Charleston, South Carolina to visit a friend. "It was my first visit to the charming city and I liked it so much, I decided to stay," she recalls. "But when my husband and I started dating in 1993, we took a trip with some friends to the Keys and fell in love with the islands. We've been making annual trips ever since and recently purchased our own little piece of paradise on one of the islands. When I'm not dayd...