The week before moving, Maxa had been drinking cobra bile with a snake salesman in Hong Kong and basking in Thailand's 96 degrees. 'He says it's nothing to move here to be with me,' said his fiancée, Ana Scofield, 38, of White Bear Lake, 'but I view it as a huge sacrifice.' After living in Washington, D.C., most of his adult life, Maxa, 54, one of America's most prolific and engaging travel writers, has moved from the city he loves to be with the woman he loves. Rudy Maxa has four homes now - or none - depending on how you look at it.