LAHAINA TOWN

Penny left a dark, rainy winter to start a new year and a new life in paradise. Would she have stayed--gutted out, if she'd known the hardships and loneliness she would face, that she would live in her car and an infested shack without power, or that she would move six times and have five jobs that year? If it had been somewhere not so stunningly beautiful, with not-so-perfect weather, maybe not--but Maui? The island rises out of an azure sea, the emerald mountains giving birth to innumerable wa