Caribbean

It’s raining again here in Wine Country.  It’s been raining a lot lately.  So much so that talk of drought has given way to discussions of full reservoirs and we’ve been wondering if our next vehicle should really be an ark.  So it seems like the perfect day to stay ind

It’s only a few days before Christmas.  The malls are slammed, parking lots overflowing.  We kept being surprised at the line ups at all the stores.  We didn’t remember dealing with this in years past.  That’s when it hit us – we haven’t been home for Christmas in

We spent many long hours banging away at Kayak.com trying to find the magic combination of flights that would bring the price under $1000 (per person at Christmas from California). We finally found a relatively cheap flight in to St Lucia and out of St Maarten. …

My wife and I spent 2 weeks in the Caribbean in December 2007 to January 2008. We had originally hoped to be able to go island hopping by ferry through multiple islands in the Eastern Caribbean, but after a little research found this would be very difficult – and impossible for