HONOLULU – Pat Bowlen was part thrill-seeker, part risk-taker.
He crashed into a tree while skiing. He toppled over multiple car hoods while bike-riding. And he gashed his head on a stop sign while jogging.
“Dad had a lot of close calls,” said Johnny Bowlen, one of Pat’s seven children, with a laugh. “There were some good ones over the years.”
But there is a best one, one that symbolized Bowlen’s zest for adventure and challenges in general and particularly in his beloved Hawaii, his primary second home for more than four decades.