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Anguilla always tops my wish list of islands to re-visit each year. For 2019, my desire to return here is stronger than ever. Sandcastle Beach House is why.

Neptune Three-Year Aged Gold Barbados Rum – the best of Barbados and the UK, and easily the best new rum I sampled in 2018.

Given the choice, I'd most want to start 2019 just like this; floating aimlessly and without a care off the shores of Sandy Point back home in St. Croix.

Many people have a particular flower they prefer to receive above all others. For New Year's in Costa Rica, Santa Lucia flowers are the only choice.

This is the view that greeted me upon waking and exiting my room each morning of the extended weekend stay I enjoyed at Douglas House at The Fred St. Croix.

I was starving and exhausted after hiking the Caravelle Peninsula. A quick stop at Ti Carbet, though, proved the perfect panacea.

The series of natural pools and waterfalls that comprise Bassin Bleu make for an incomparable southern Haiti adventure.

Rum shops are everywhere in Trinidad. Roti shops are too. Where you don't find either of them, sometimes you'll find shark oil shops.

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