Category Archives: Travel

A-B-C…easy as 1-2-3…simple as do-re-me…

Our final three ports of call were the ABC islands in the Dutch Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao. We went scuba diving in Bonaire and beached it in Curacao and Aruba. The ABCs all have arid climates which was quite a change from the tropical rainforests to which we’d become accustomed. Curacao was especially beautiful, […]

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Flaming Limbo Lower Now!

During our evening in Trinidad, we attended a cultural show that knocked our socks off with national champion calypso singers, steel pan players, talented drummers, and limbo-ologists. Our camera battery died shortly after the show began. Thankfully, my iPhone camera still had some juice. Too bad it isn’t the newly announced iPhone 4 because the […]

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Jolly Good Sporting, Old Boy.

We visited Trinidad and Tobago on a national holiday, so most of the shops and restaurants were closed. We had the good fortune, however, of hitting on a day when they were hosting an international cricket match between the local Caribbean West Indies team (wearing maroon) and South Africa (wearing green). Neither Shannon nor I […]

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Grenada: Let’s Be Friends

The night before our arrival in Grenada, our friend and co-worker Courtney had a vision: she forsaw us zipping around the winding mountain roads on mopeds or scooters. We left the ship with that plan in mind but were unfortunately not able to find a scooter rental shop once ashore…we’ll have to try again on […]

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Beach-slapped in Barbados

This year, our voyage has had very few days at sea and many, many days in port. That is awesome because we get to see lots and lots of different countries, but it’s easy to wear yourself out if you don’t pause and take it slow every now and then. In Barbados, we decided to […]

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A Whale of a Tail

The island of Dominica (pronounced “doe mee NEE kuh”) is a volcanic island rich in natural beauty and vastly undeveloped to date. Like most of the eastern Caribbean islands, tourism is the main economy, but at Dominica the focus is on eco-tours to the rainforest, hot springs, and waterfalls as well as small mom ‘n […]

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Come On Ride the Train…and Ride It

The island of St. Kitts is a wonder to behold. Sugar plantation subsidies from Britain and the rest of Europe have dried up, so the country is in the process of switching primary industries from sugar production to tourism. Because the island remains largely undeveloped, its natural beauty and beautiful coastline is unmarred by highrise […]

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Forts, Food, and Pigeons

We spent May 29 walking around the old part of San Juan, Puerto Rico. We explored old forts, ate good food, and sweated out all of the water we drank in the heat and humidity. We started with a hike up the hill to one of the two main forts in the city, Castillo San […]

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Whales Chasing Tail

I had a little bit of free time from the lab yesterday and got to sit in on a lecture Dr. Allen Schoenherr gave about whales and other marine mammals. It was a fun and fascinating talk, and it gave me some things to look for on the rest of the voyage. As luck would […]

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If you’re going to sin, sin boldly.

We’re back on board the MV Explorer for a couple weeks of fun visiting many different Caribbean islands. We plan to blog as much as we can about our various ports of call, but we’re likely to fall behind at some point because we’re a little busier than we were the last time we set […]

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