At breakfast I had a visitor – a big scaly one – stop by our table. As he hopped up onto a nearby wall in all his spiky multi-colored brilliance, the two-foot-long iguana – whose […]
The familiar heroic strains of the theme from the movie 1492: Conquest of Paradise resonate from speakers on deck at the signature sail-away party on Windstar Cruises’ newest ship. All eyes are on the brilliant […]
This one’s got an elegant fragrance, but it could use a more shapely body. That one hints of lemon, with a tinge of leather, but it leaves my tongue feeling dry. It may sound like a […]
Quick: what country is Puerto Quetzal in? Could you locate Puerto Barrios on a map? These aren’t trick questions, but part of a promotion for cruising in Central America that you’ll be hearing a lot […]
There are an infinite number of colors in Costa Rica, but there’s no escaping green. Arriving at the Finca Rosa Blanca coffee plantation and inn for a stay before taking a Star Clippers cruise, I […]
They call them wet landings for good reason: You get your feet wet because there aren’t any docks along the beaches Star Flyer visited in a week sailing along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. Coming in at […]
If you’ve ever spent any time on sailboats, you’ve learned there are often compromises to be made for the sake of the sails and the limited space below deck. You bunk in narrow cabins, the […]
It’s party time along the coast of Costa Rica. Beneath the waves, the action is as hot and heavy as it can get at Spring Break time above water on the beaches of Cancun or […]
Don’t look down! The crowd on deck was ribbing me as I hung precariously from a rope ladder halfway up one of the masts of the sailing ship Star Flyer. It was a highlight of […]
It’s enough to get you believing there really is an Underworld. The unholy heat, the endless smoke and the choking smell of sulfur that you sense at the rim of the Mombacho volcano’s seemingly endless […]
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