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After a 29-year break from one of the wildest annual fetes in the Virgin Islands, I returned home recently to brave the crazy that is the St. Croix St. Patrick's Day Parade two weekends ago.

How's St. Croix faring post-Hurricane Maria? Should you pay our home island a visit this winter? We'll share a lot of answers this week.

Getting to Guadeloupe was easy. Getting around the archipelago, though, proved more difficult than I anticipated.

Aside from some unusually challenging traffic (even by Port-au-Prince standards), EVERYTHING was exceedingly good on my latest visit to Haiti.

My first Caribbean adventure of 2017 is in the books! The destination: Kingston, Jamaica.

I'm just back from my first trip back to Aruba in six years! Did time apart make my heart grow fonder for this ultra-popular corner of the Caribbean?

All my trips to Provo leave me wanting more. This time, though, my yearning to stay proved stronger than usual...

Welcome to "Unpacking," a new series we're starting today featuring a few quick hits from our latest travel adventures.