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Vacation Days VS Island Life Realities
Friends in the states picture us tanned as roasted almonds, spending our days sunning on the beach, our afternoons napping in hammocks, our twilights sipping rum punches in our beachside gazebo, our dinnertimes grilling fresh fish, and our nighttimes dancing under the...
Passport Predicament in Paradise
Do not ever, ever lose your passport. It's the most important document we expats own - the one that lets us fly back and forth from our rocks to our home countries. When I "reach," as the Bahamians say, I immediately put my passport in a particular drawer; same...
10 Tips for Driving the Bahamian Way
With one main road and nary a stoplight for 110 miles, driving on Eleuthera can feel like taking a leisurely Sunday outing through the countryside. Or it can be amusing, befuddling, comical, confusing, frustrating, and even dangerous. All at once. Having lived on this...
Clean Days VS Dirty Days on the Rock
On the rock, we have sunny days and cloudy days. We also have "clean" days and "dirty" days. A clean day means I take a shower, wash my hair, and put on clean - if not pressed - clothes. The impetus for such rare occasions is usually an invitation to have lunch out...
Boas in the Bahamas
"Dave, can you come here NOW? There's a snake in our living room." It's a testament to my years on Eleuthera that I wasn't screaming and running for cover when I saw the 3ft snake that had slithered into the living room via an open sliding glass door. Before moving to...
Livin’ on Island Time
Mother Nature is a great clock but a very unreliable calendar. Living on an island, I quickly learned to tell the time, tides, and weather without any electronic devices. From my bed, listening to the waves slapping the beach, I can tell if it's high or low tide. From...