Get Away on a Cheap Beach Vacation Top 10

This is the time of year when people start to plan their vacations, the snow is falling, the air is bitter, and we know that somewhere, the palm trees are swaying in a warm breeze with the smell of the ocean water.
However, in today’s economic climate it’s not always easy to get to a warmer [...]

Posted on December 29, 2009 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Beach and Vacation Travel Tips and Help, Beaches to go See, Recommended Beaches and Places | 4 Comments

Merry Christmas from the Beach Bum, 2009

Merry Christmas!

I’m sure that many of you are freezing this year wishing for the beach, and what better to celebrate Christmas than by laying on a tropical beach somewhere in the Caribbean.
Or maybe you’d like to spend Christmas with Jimmy Buffett on Christmas Island.

Posted on December 23, 2009 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Vacation Time | Leave a Comment

Jamaica Vacation Part 2 – Monday

I have not been posting very regularly here. It has been almost 5 months since my vacation and I only have one day posted. You can find day 1 of our vacation to Jamaica here.
On Monday, we did almost absolutely nothing. Sort of. We relaxed.

There are many vendors on the beach selling everything from fruit [...]

Posted on December 8, 2009 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Food, Jamaica Vacation | Leave a Comment

Jamaican Vacation Part 1 – Sunday

Today was the first day of our vacation to Negril Jamaica.
We left very early in the morning, about 5:00 AM. It made for a very long day and trip. We also had only about 30-45 minutes in Charlotte airport to get to our second plane.
The driver fom Rondel Village (John) was at the Montego Bay [...]

Posted on August 11, 2009 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Jamaica Vacation, Jamaica, Beaches, and the Caribbean | 1 Comment

Negril, Jamaica Holiday Vacation

What a vacation.
Rondel Village was a beautiful hotel in Negril, Jamaica. It was clean, had great service, and was almost right in the middle of the beach.

These are pictures from our room. You can see that we were right on the beach. Although the entire beach is lined with hotels, Negril the city is actually [...]

Posted on July 29, 2009 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Beaches to go See, Jamaica Vacation, Travel, Vacation Time | 1 Comment

10 Best Beaches for Finding Shells

There was a story at Travel and Leisure about the best shelling beaches in America a few weeks back. These beaches are all over the country and you can find many kinds of shells and more. Especially after a storm, anything can wash up on shore.
Calvert Cliffs State Park, Maryland
Located on the Chesapeake Bay, you [...]

Posted on July 2, 2009 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Beaches to go See | Leave a Comment

Can’t Wait for Our Jamaican Vacation

Well, I have been having a hard time writing about anything because with just about a month until our Jamaica Vacation, I don’t want to do anything but actually be there.
I don’t want to write about the beach, I want to lay on it.
I don’t want to write about the ocean, I want to swim [...]

Posted on May 19, 2009 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Jamaica Vacation | Leave a Comment

Planning My Jamaican Vacation

Yes, it is time to go to Jamaica again. My wife has never been there, so I need to make this a great trip for her. I have been looking at a number of places to stay, but I can’t decide which is best.
I also haven’t decided whether I want to use an online travel [...]

Posted on April 2, 2009 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Jamaica Vacation, Vacation Time | Leave a Comment

Pearl Islands of Panama are a Beach Bum’s Paradise

I was thinking that maybe I should sue CNN (not really) for using my domain name in a recent story about the Pearl Islands in Panama. CNN called them a Beach Bum’s Paradise. Huh. Pretty close, don’t you think?
Anyway, the Pearl Islands, or Archipiélago de las Perlas are off the southern Pacific coast of Panama. [...]

Posted on September 9, 2008 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Beaches to go See, Recommended Beaches and Places | 2 Comments

The World’s Sexiest and Most Beautiful Beaches for 2008, Part 2

Here is the seven remaining beaches on the list of 2008’s most sexy beaches.
St. Philip, Barbados
It’s only 21 miles long, yet Barbados has a bit of everything: Fine dining and bawdy beach shacks, cricket matches and Mount Gay Rum tours, the posh Caribbean Platinum Coast and the rough-and-tumble (and Highland-like) Scotland District up north. Gauge [...]

Posted on August 25, 2008 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Beaches to go See, Travel | 7 Comments