Yearly Archives: 2010

De’bark’ation Day

We arrive at our home airport at 9 pm. OK, not all of you will get the joke in the blog title but today weView full post »

Diving for Diamonds in St. Thomas

OK, I’ll admit the title is a little deceiving.  I went for a 2-tank scuba dive where I went searching for reefsView full post »

Getting Rum Punched in Antigua!

Ahhh….beautiful Antigua water.  Nice!  The Mariner docked in Antigua early today and before we knew it we hadView full post »

Barbados – A “Supersonic” Experience

Today we are in Barbados, the sun is shining and the water is a thrilling blue.  It’s hot — but not too hotView full post »

Possessed Macaws on Devil’s Island

Today we arrived at Devil’s Island.  Or, to be more accurate, we arrived at the Salvation Islands located 7 miles offView full post »

Santarem – A Drop in the “Bucket” List

Today we are in Santarem, which is one of the major cities on the Amazon.  This will be the last stop on this massiveView full post »

Parintins – Boi Bumba “Ox”citement

Today we visited Parintins, a town of 80,000 on the Amazonian island of Tupinambarana (say that 10 times fast!) and onView full post »

Manaus – Up the River without our Poodle!

We were trying to think of a clever title for our blog entry today…and since we’ve been missing our littleView full post »

Le Cordon Bleu – We Bid You “a Dieux”

We had our third and final class yesterday – it was sad to think that the hands-on cooking experience is over, but asView full post »