(Location: St Vincent & the Grenadines, Caribbean) We’d heard the Grenadines was “like the BVI was 20 years ago.” The BVI had become pretty developed, so were intrigued. We’d also heard that “the BVI is where you go if you want to drive your boat from bar to bar, the Grenadines is where you go […]
(Location: Eastern Caribbean) Post 9/11, no one was traveling. In November, we saw a deal for a cruise at Christmas for $250 per person. We hadn’t been on a cruise, and the itinerary looked pretty good, so we figured how bad could it be?!? We flew from Raleigh to San Juan, Puerto Rico where we […]
(Location: Paradise Island, The Bahamas) In 1999 we were married in the Bahamas. Fifty friends and family joined us at the Atlantis Resort in Paradise Island. We chose to get married in the Bahamas because our friends and family are all over the US (and it is much more interesting than Cary, North Carolina – […]
(Location: New Providence, The Bahamas) Going out of our minds with the stress from building the house, we decided to leave everything behind and spend Christmas in the Bahamas. We stayed at South Ocean Beach Resort, which is on New Providence Island, but far far away from Nassau. The diving was fantastic, but the food […]
(Location: Aruba) We used our flight vouchers from Roatan to go to Aruba – it was the only safe place to go during hurricane season. The weather was perfect, but very windy. We stayed at the Sonesta, located in Seaport Village (downtown). There’s a boat that comes right into the lobby and takes you to […]
(Location: Grand Cayman) Fired up from our trip to Roatan, we were excited to go scuba diving in Grand Cayman. Unfortunately it was an El Nino year, which made the diving conditions pretty poor. We had fun at stingray city though 🙂 Would the rain ever stop? Luckily we had a cute little condo right […]
(Location: British Virgin Islands, Caribbean) The idea was simple – “why don’t we just charter a sailboat and sail around to different dive spots?” A few months later we were stepping off a plane in St. Thomas and taking the first ferry to the British Virgin Islands – this was an all day adventure. We […]