May 10th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
Summer is the time of island vacations. It is time to put as much distance between you and the real world as possible. It is time to stand outside of your everyday life and to see how it all looks from a paradise perspective. Here is a collection of islands for escape – places to recharge, gain perspective and explore. From an island in the land of the gods to a tropical Amsterdam at ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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10 Extraordinary Islands To Visit On Your Next Vacation
May 10th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
Summer is the time of island vacations. It is time to put as much distance between you and the real world as possible. It is time to stand outside of your everyday life and to see how it all looks from a paradise perspective. Here is a collection of islands for escape – places to recharge, gain perspective and explore. From an island in the land of the gods to a tropical Amsterdam at ...Jon Bowermaster: Dispatches from St. John - Day 4
May 20th, 2010 at 9:00AM:
Arthur Jones came to St. John from Fayetteville, Arkansas, to be a Caribbean kayak guide. He thought it would last a season, maybe two. Seventeen years later he's still here and helping me explore the island's rugged coast. "I never thought I would stay this long but ... look around." The island national park of St. John rises behind and St. Thomas – capital of the USVI -- is just three ...Jon Bowermaster: Dispatches from St. John - Day 3
May 17th, 2010 at 9:00AM:
I spent one rare rainy day in St. John with Jane Johannis, who couldn't have been happier about the dampness outside her simple house. "When it rains like this I put out every pot and pan I have, in order to keep my plants watered," she says.
A native of the island, at 80-plus years old her skin as beautiful as fine Italian leather, eyes reduced to slits from years spent tending her garden ...Jon Bowermaster: Dispatches from St. John - Day 2
May 13th, 2010 at 9:00AM:
Given its history of wildness, the 114-tent-and-boardwalk resort known as Maho Bay Camps is a perfect fit on St. John, as close to a true eco-resort as any I've seen around the world. Which surprises no one more than Stanley Selengut, the camp's owner who put up the initial 18 tents in 1976. "That phrase – eco-resort – didn't exist then," says a longtime Maho Bay manager once ...Hotels in the U.S. Virgin Islands offer 25 cent nightly rate
Oct 10th, 2009 at 11:00AM: The U.S. Virgin Islands are going to be featured on a newly designed quarter and to celebrate, hotels around the islands are offering up rooms at 25 cents - yes, just 25 cents! - per night.
Of course, there is some fine print to the offer. Guests will still be responsible for taxes of 7%, resort fees, and government taxes of 8%, so the total ends up being a litte more than the 75 cents you might ...
