No matter where we go in the Caribbean, all the places seem to have one thing in common: there are giant, zillion dollar mega yachts parked in the marinas.
Caribbean
Dominica: the Nature Island
Dominica is unlike any other Caribbean island I’ve been too. Lush jungle covers this volcanic island that draws more comparisons to Hawaii than Barbados. 70,000 people call Dominica home, with 17,000 of them living in the capital of Roseau, the small, multi-colored roof filled city where cruise ships dock. In Dominica we spent the day touring…
Wordless Wednesday: Caribbean Cruise Ports
Most people think that cruising in the Caribbean means one thing: beach. But it doesn’t necessarily mean that at all. On our recent Celebrity Equinox cruise, we visited very distinct, very different ports of call. Dominica was a jungle paradise, with hardly a lick of beach. St. Kitts was a mountainous geological wonder full of…
Wordless Wednesday: palm trees
I’m in a summer state of mind. Apologies to any of my readers who may be experiencing winter right now. Hopefully these photos warm you up a bit!
Barbados: Good-Bye
I’ve started to write this post probably a hundred times since the mid-May phone conversation when my Dad, an American ex-pat living & working in Barbados for the past four years, told me he was moving back to the States. It seems like only yesterday that, in a similar phone conversation, he was asking me…




