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What You Won’t Find In The Caribbean

If you're planning to trade your civilized existence for a decidedly less structured life in the tropics, there is something you should know before you get here. I'm not talking about the basics - like...Read More

Two Things To Leave Behind When You Move To The Tropics

When preparing to move to the Caribbean, one of the biggest struggles I had was a fairly universal one...what to pack. After all, this wasn't my ordinary one- or two-week vacation (although I always struggled...Read More

How To Pick The Right Caribbean Island

If you haven't heard, I branched out into vlogging with my new Ask An Island Girl Q&A series. It took me some time to get past my (a) fear of being in front of the...Read More

What Island Life Challenges Will Teach You

My alternative title for this post was going to be "The Caribbean Destroys Everything...Including Your Soul," but I thought that sounded a tad melodramatic. Even for me. But it's true. In reality, all the endless...Read More

Ask An Island Girl – A New Q&A Series

Usually, this is the spot where you'd find my latest blog post, filled with witty observations and wry commentary on the absurdity of island life. And on more introspective days, my musings on the ups...Read More

Playing The Island Cell Phone Game

Just when I started worrying that island life was getting almost normal and that I'd run out of absurd situations to write about, the universe reminded me otherwise. Specifically, that I do, in fact, still...Read More