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It’s the heart of winter in North America. The skies are grey. The winds are cold. Daylight hours feel ruthlessly rationed. It’s times like these when one question becomes inescapable:
If you could be anywhere else in the world right now, where would it be?
Well here it is: our first Uncommon Caribbean Month of Rum. All this month, we’re covering our favorite spirit from all angles. Expect videos, photos, interviews, reviews and more. But so far, the big news is our VIP RumFest Escape sweepstakes we announced yesterday. The excitement around the two VIP passes to the 2012 Miami Rum Renaissance Festival and $500 in travel cash has been spreading fast and furiously.
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It’s said that the best things in life are free. A kiss from your crush. A smile from your son. The kaleidoscopic wonder of another sunset. None of these moments cost a penny yet all of them carry a value — one no exchange rate can place a number on.
Now if you don’t already know this you may find it hard to believe, but on many islands there’s something else money simply can’t buy: beaches.
Guess what?
We don’t know everything there is to know about the Caribbean!
I can easily see why it might seem like we do. Every day we share posts on subjects near and dear to our hearts that may be new to you. Ever sipped Stallion Milk Stout? Dove into Dominica’s Champagne Reef? Soaked fruits for months on end for some amazing black cake? Braved Antione Rivers Rum? Have you ever even heard of, much less been to, the village of Toco on Trinidad? (Well, don’t worry, we’ve never been there either!)
Sure, as native West Indians, we have a unique, insider perspective to the cultural and natural wonders of the Caribbean, but I’ll let you in on a little secret: we’re picking some of this up as we go!
I’m writing this while taking in daybreak from the veranda of Cotton House 2 in Barbados. My feet are kicked up on the coffee table, my infant child is pattering around waving a cracker in his hand, and my wife has just started some coffee in the kitchen as evidenced by the rich aroma wafting out on the cool sea air.
A matter of feet beyond my feet, just over the edge of the deck, the waves are methodically rolling in – pushing foam over the sand at my doorstep.
There’s just one thing that might be considered wrong with this perfect morning picture: it’s raining.
Gifts. Gifts! Gifts! My inbox is overflowing with emails sporting subject lines like “Last-minute shoppers: hurry for holiday shipping!” Everywhere I look, I’m being bombarded with promises of the “Perfect Holiday Gift!”
Am I the only one suffering flashbacks to the outlandish coverage of Black Friday mayhem from less than a month ago? (And really every year before that?) Remember the woman pepper-spraying her fellow deal fanatics just to secure herself a 3D HDTV, or iPad 2 or $1.99 dish towels or whatever it was?
But ask yourself this: when was the last time you received a gift, bought from a store and all wrapped up with a bow, that you’d cherish for a lifetime?
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.
No, not white with snow! White with white sand beaches—just like the ones I used to know growing up all those years ago in St. Croix.
The holidays really are the most special time of year to spend in the Caribbean.
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