A few years ago, we started treating Grand Turk as a kind of bonus sea day. We don’t wake up early. We don’t rush off the ship. We don’t book tours. Any time we’re in Grand Turk, we set a later alarm, we have breakfast and we get off the ship once everyone else has Read more
We’ve lost count of how many times we’ve docked in Grand Turk at this point. I figure the number is 6-8 times, but really, we have no idea. They all blend together in a beautiful puddle of crystal clear water in the most beautiful shade of cerulean blue. I think the reason we’ve lost count Read more
There’s a scene in Home Alone 2 where Kevin rhetorically asks his parents who’d want to spend Christmas with palm trees? They weren’t in Grand Turk in the Turks and Caicos islands, though. I think they were going to Miami. We’ve never spent Christmas anywhere but Chicago. Granted, we don’t celebrate Christmas, ourselves, but we Read more
We all need a little [Carnival] Sunshine in our lives, don’t we? It’s been a crazy week at work. A crazy month, really. Q4 is like my Olympics — I train all year for it, but there’s really no amount of stretching I can do to really prepare myself for the madness that ensues every Read more
Our first day in port began with a bit of an early start. It’s funny how that happens…waking early when you plan to sleep in and wanting nothing more than to sleep in when you have to be up early. It wasn’t because we were eager to get out into port or because we had Read more
