Tag Archives: Caribbean

A Room With a ‘Swag View’ – and Geckos

The view of Maho Bay from our cabin. The campground is literally built on the side of a mountain leading down to the water. That

My fourth trip to my favorite spot in the Western Hemisphere was my oldest son’s first trip to the Maho Bay Campground on the north coast of St. John, the smallest of the U.S. Virgin Islands. This was my birthday gift to Matt, who turned 16 the day after Labor Day. We didn’t get there until Columbus Day weekend, but it turned out to be the perfect time to go. The following weekend, Tropical Storm Rafael visited the island, which would have made camping there a challenge of a different order. It was also fortuitous that we went when we did, because this eco-tourism site, which ... [Read More]

Thanksgiving on Paradise

Usually we have visitors come from "up North" to visit us in Atlanta over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. This year it was not the case. Pondering what to do this year, my wife Sue and I were watching Wheel of Fortune one evening and saw someone win a trip to the Bahamas. I looked at her, she at me, and said, "We should spend Thanksgiving there." After checking the Web we found a special offer to stay at Atlantis on Paradise Island.  After non-eventful airport security checkpoints and a short, hour-and-a-half flight, we arrived at the hotel on Thanksgiving day. Walking into the entry area of ... [Read More]

The Three “S”s on St. Croix

Pelican Cove

It was my wife's special birthday. I won't say how old, but it's somewhere right between zero and 100. So ... she got to choose the "birthday vacation" location. She loves the beach so we booked a flight to the island of St. Croix (USVI) for a week of the three "S"s: sun tanning (or burning), shopping and snorkeling. After landing on this 84-square-mile Caribbean island (the largest of the three inhabited U.S. Virgins Islands — St. Thomas and St. John are the other two) and gathering the luggage, we set out to get a cab to our hotel. It was easy. All you have to ... [Read More]