Current Rock of Residence:
St. Lucia
Island Girl Since:
2006
Originally Hails From:
Hawaii & Texas
Faced with the choice of using her college degree to find a “career” somewhere on the US mainland or moving to an island, as soon as her tasseled graduation cap hit the ground, she was on her way to Honolulu. A little under a decade later Sara found herself on a press trip in Saint Lucia and hired by a resort there to create destination marketing content and materials. One thing led to another and after too many 24-hour commutes from Hawaii to Saint Lucia + a Trinidadian boyfriend to call her own, she sorted her possessions into “worth the cost of shipping” or not piles and made her way across the Pacific.
Since then, she has created a hospitality & tourism consulting business, Coral Range, that keeps her island hopping, lived on Abaco in the Bahamas for a year, learned to cook everything from bodi to salt fish, and fully embraced the Caribbean lifestyle – though her chipping and wining will always need some work.
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Vehicular Devolution on the Rocks
If one were to graph the devolution of my island vehicles there would be a 0% correlation with financial health and a 100% correlation to the amount of years spent living on rocks. Hawaii: I call my time in Hawaii The Lexus Years. Champagne colored (to match my...
What Your Swimsuit Says About You
A Highly Scientific Anthropological Study Using Mostly Observational Methodologies Conducted from a Beach Bar Stool in Turks & Caicos Presented in Eighty Lines of Free Verse. That super strappy one-piece With the cutouts crisscrossing each side And a...
Being Bookish on a Book-less Rock
I find myself currently living on the little island of South Caicos. If you haven’t heard much about South Caicos, that’s because there are only two resorts with three restaurants between them both and then two other places to eat in town, one of which is only open on...
Island Cat on the Move: It Takes A Village
I’ve tackled some grueling tasks in my life that should have made dealing with Caribbean animal import permits a breeze. My college degree is in Russian literature. War and Peace is like an appetizer for me. I develop resort websites for a living, as in I sit and...
COMPARING ISLAND LIFE: Oahu, St. Lucia, & Abaco
EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to the fifth post in our new series where women who have lived on multiple rocks compare the lifestyles of different islands. If you missed the first four, click here, or here, or here, or here. This site receives so many questions in the realm...
A 16 Step Guide to Booking Flights off your Rock
In our home, "winning the internet" means one of us has found a flight from Saint Lucia that we deem not ridiculously expensive. We have quite literally flown through Canada (and saved over $300, overnighting expenses included) to end up in Miami in order to collect...
