Top Five Family Vacation Beach Resorts

By now, my regular readers know that I am not a big fan of resorts. However, they can be a good place to take your family. You don’t have to pack the kids in the car to find a place to eat, or to find activities to keep them occupied. Most of it is there [...]

Posted on December 13, 2008 Filed Under Beach and Vacation Travel Tips and Help, Recommended Beaches and Places, Vacation Time | Leave a Comment

The Top Ten Most Exotic Beaches in the World Part 1

Yes, I know what you are thinking. You’re thinking, “How can anyone even know that?” Well, you’re right, no one can. But hey, these are some pretty good beaches, and very popular too. For a beach to be exotic, it has to be different. It can’t be like every other beach you’ve ever been to. [...]

Posted on October 8, 2008 Filed Under Beach Bums, Beach News and Stories, Beach and Vacation Travel Tips and Help, Beaches to go See, Food, Jamaica Vacation, Jamaica, Beaches, and the Caribbean, Music, Not Much to do with the Beach, Recommended Beaches and Places, Travel, Vacation Time, Vacations and Work | 5 Comments

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 [...]

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 1

Last year, I talked about Concierge.com‘s sexiest beaches for 2007. I also split that into two posts, here is the second part of that 2007 sexy beach list. This year Concierge listed 17 beaches that they think are the sexiest beaches in the world. I know that there are going to be different opinions on [...]

Posted on August 25, 2008 Filed Under Beach News and Stories, Beach Vacations, Beaches to go See, Recommended Beaches and Places | Leave a Comment

The Best Beaches in China

There is a lot of talk about China now for some reason. I guess it’s that thingy, uh, the sports thing. What’s it called? Anyway, China was never much of an option for tourism, but that has changed in the last number of years. China has over 11,000 miles of coastline, so you know that [...]

Posted on August 11, 2008 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Beaches to go See, Recommended Beaches and Places | Leave a Comment

The Top Ten Beaches in America for 2008

Last year, I wrote about Dr. Beach’s Top Ten Best Beaches in America for 2007. Well, here is the new list for the Top Ten Beaches in the US for 2008. For those that don’t know, Dr. Beach (Dr. Leatherman) tests the waters of almost every beach in the country to find out which are [...]

Posted on July 28, 2008 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Beaches to go See, Recommended Beaches and Places | 1 Comment

Eating Seafood in Newport Rhode Island

I said I was going to talk about my vacation to the beach, but while I was there, I didn’t really want to do much of anything. Except go to the beach of course. Then when I got back, I had to get caught back up in work. I haven’t been to Newport, RI in [...]

Posted on July 23, 2008 Filed Under Beach Vacations, Beach and Vacation Travel Tips and Help, Beaches to go See, Food, Recommended Beaches and Places | 2 Comments

Newport Folk Festival has Stephen & Damian Marley and Jimmy Buffett

I said in the last post about how I didn’t think we would be going anywhere, but if we did, it would probably be to Newport, R.I. I practically grew up there in the summers, being that my dad was from Newport. However, the Newport Folk Festival this year has some acts that I’d really [...]

Posted on June 16, 2008 Filed Under Music, Recommended Beaches and Places | 2 Comments

Top 5 Family Beach Vacations

Just a quick little post. I saw this in the Dallas News. Here are the writers picks for the top family beach in the US. Coronado, California The long, wide stretch of sand is home to the Hotel del Coronado, which provides easy access to a host of seaside activities. Get out your boogie board, [...]

Posted on June 16, 2008 Filed Under Beach and Vacation Travel Tips and Help, Beaches to go See, Recommended Beaches and Places | Leave a Comment

An Indiana Jones Adventure Vacation

This is pretty cool. At least, pretty cool marketing. I (and my wife) am a huge Indiana Jones fan, and can’t wait for the next movie (there may be a fifth), and I think that Expedia is offering Indiana Jones Adventure Vacations to Peru, India, South America, Petra and more is pretty neat. For those [...]

Posted on May 21, 2008 Filed Under Recommended Beaches and Places, Travel, Vacation Time | 3 Comments