Ken Yolman

Exile Dad Ken Yolman

"I never wanted to leave...!"When two of his ex-wives joined forces to turn the Child Custody Court against him, architect Ken Yolman had only two options: go to jail and seeing the kids only when their mothers allowed, or escape Florida and rebuild his relationships with them from a distance. Ken chose self-exile in the Virgin Islands: so close, yet so far away. For the next 23 years, Ken forged a new life amid a unique and colorful island culture while fighting to overcome years of negative brainwashing that his own kids had been fed. Along the way, he endures a rollercoaster of shifting alliances: from new friends and old, business acquaintances, island romances, and even his own brother and sister!Pulled from the detailed pages of Ken's own daily journal, follow him as he desperately attempts to rekindle the love of his own children while following his instinctive path trying to find his own place in the world. The Plane's tire's screeched as we hit the steaming tarmac on the island if St Thomas: the light bouncing off the plane abruptly interrupting my cloudly trance. It wasn't the best landing I'd ever experienced, but hardly the worst. As I descended the steps from the plane, the humidity slapped my face with a heavy dose of reality. Repeated thoughts and memories of the kids. The same images if them, so fleeting, over and over again. What the hell was I doing so far from them? Was this really the right move? Where would I go from here?