Share The Article When the morning frost hardens the grass in my backyard here in Louisville, my mind shifts straight to the Caribbean. The sky turns a dull grey, the wind cuts through your jacket, and all you want is a warm beach. I spend hours looking at flight maps trying to find an escape. […]
Share The Article I totally understand the urge to hold onto summer for as long as humanly possible. When the temperature starts dropping at home, my first reaction is to start looking at flight maps. I want to find a place where the sun is still bright, the ocean water is still warm enough for […]
Share The Article When winter rolls around, most travelers stick to a predictable formula. Millions of winter-weary travelers fly to the same handful of commercialized island hubs. You spend weeks dreaming about a relaxing tropical escape only to drop thousands of dollars to stand in a buffet line, fight for a pool chair at 7:00 […]
Share The Article As the travel world moves its focus toward 2027, major publications are dropping their highly anticipated destination lists (keep an eye out for ours soon!). Lonely Planet just released their Best in Travel 2027 lineup this week, and they highlighted some incredible spots across Latin America and the Caribbean. They gave shoutouts […]
Share The Article When the cabin doors open on the tarmac at Maurice Bishop International Airport, you aren’t hit with the smell of exhaust or generic terminal air—you are hit with the faint, warm scent of sea salt. You step down the metal stairs, look up at the lush island surrounding you and immediately realize […]
Share The Article The second the high-speed boat cuts its engines and pulls into the dock at Blowing Point, the frantic pace of the outside world completely evaporates. You step off the wooden pier, look down at water so clear it looks like liquid glass, and immediately realize you have arrived somewhere genuinely special. There […]
Share The Article If you think escaping the winter freeze means dropping half your paycheck on an overcrowded mega-resort in Cancun or the Bahamas, think again. That might be the default playbook for travelers dealing with freezing temperatures across the States, where winter brings endless slush and gray skies, but this Central American country didn’t […]
Share The Article I’ve spent years living in and traveling around the Caribbean. I’ve covered tourism conferences like CHTA, sat down with tourism boards, and made lifelong friends from island to island. When you spend that much time on the ground, you quickly realize there’s a huge difference between a beach that looks great in […]
Share The Article Trying to lock in the perfect tropical escape used to feel like a travel compromise. For years, if you found a destination that was actually safe and empty, getting there was a nightmare. On the flip side, the spots with direct flights out of the U.S. were almost always the same ones […]
Share The Article A couple of months ago, Liz and I were standing in the TSA line at SDF in Louisville, holding nothing more than our standard driver’s licenses. If you looked at us, we could have easily been catching a quick domestic hop to Chicago or Atlanta for the weekend. But just a few […]