In somewhat of a homecoming, former Sonoma West reporter (in the 1990s), Janis Couvreux is featured in this week’s October 31, 2018 edition of the same newspaper on the occasion of her upcoming Sail Cowabunga! book launch event November 11, 2018 at the Occidental Center for the Arts. After sailing into Bodega Bay, Sonoma County, and first resettling in Occidental in 1990, the story of Sail Cowabunga! culminated here several years later, as the family settled into a new life.