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Traveling Tips
January 3rd, 2012
We’re always looking for the perfect carry-on bag: wheeled, lightweight, capacious, durable and – because we’re more than a little vain – stylish as well. So on a recent trip to the Grenadines, we took Briggs and Riley’s BRX Explore 22” Upright for a spin....
December 14th, 2011
Here's an ugly number: $67.5 billion. That's the estimated value of the 448 million vacation days American workers forfeited in 2010. Have you taken yours?...
August 15th, 2011
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It’s the last day of your vacation and you’re floating in the pool, soaking up every last second of your holiday (and the all-inclusive swim-up bar). Everything about this scenario is fabulous, except......
December 1st, 2010
Straight from palm tree to mouth, coconut water is a refreshing drink and a favorite in the Caribbean islands....
August 20th, 2010
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They’re the souvenirs no traveler wants to bring back: bedbugs....
July 19th, 2010
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This just in: Bonaire's leaving the Netherlands Antilles to become a municipality of Holland....
May 26th, 2010
Category: caribbean festivals
Now that it's getting warm and we spend more time at the backyard tiki bar pretending we're in the Caribbean, nothing gets us there faster than the new Putumayo album Latin Party......
Tags: caribbean festivals
March 17th, 2010
Category: eco travel
The Caribbean is full of surprises. During our recent road trip through the Central American country of Belize, staff photographer Zach Stovall and I enjoyed a rare treat, thanks to Mark Howells, the Aussie owner of the Lamanai Outpost Lodge: We ate breakfast with a nearby Mennonite family. Belize has some 10,000 Mennonites — about 3 percent of the total population — who live in small communities all over the country. Defiantly nonviolent and anti-military, they left Europe in droves to escape religious persecution; Belize is one of about 65 countries where you'll find them....
Tags: eco travel
February 24th, 2010
Traveling to the Cayman Islands just got easier for you northerners with the addition of Delta's new weekly direct service. Starting June 12, the airline will begin operating a round trip flight every Saturday between New York's JFK and Grand Cayman, so you can kick off your island vacation without any of the usual layovers. Just log on to delta.com to book your trip....
February 9th, 2010
You may have heard that come May 1, American Airlines will no longer provide blankets in the coach cabin on flights less than two hours long, and will begin charging passengers $8 for a blanket+ pillow combo on flights longer than two hours. The new policy applies not only to travel in the US and Canada but to Mexico and the Caribbean as well. So what's a comfort-craving, penny-pinching coach-class flier to do?...
