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When I'm back home in St. Croix and lucky enough to be out at Buck Island, being beached is something special, fun. Something I never want to end.

Eagle Beach, where sits the Bucuti and Tara Beach Resort, was not only the best beach we enjoyed in Aruba, it was also its widest.

Negril brings out the kid in you like few places on earth. Four miles of pristine white sand beach stretching along vibrant aquamarine seas will do that.

Luquillo is the kind of place that invites exploration, mixing with the locals, and rising with the sun to experience the real spirit of Puerto Rico.

Scores of hotels and yacht charter companies are offering great deals enabling uncommon travelers to enjoy the BVIs on the cheap.

This is a small corner of the San Blas Islands, an archipelago of some 378 islets and rocks located off the northeastern coast of Panama.

Aged 10 years, Yolo Gold is plenty smooth for sipping, with a nice finish that's heavy on the vanilla with very little burn. It's solid, sophisticated.

Venture here in the late afternoon hours as I did recently and revel in the dynamic effect the fading light has on the blues and greens of Guadeloupe.

Somehow, as sadly seems typical of most religions, Catholics and Protestants couldn't see fit to coexist nicely on St. Croix... not even in death.