Review: Hotel Casa Chameleon at Mal Pais

Hotel Casa Chameleon at Mal Pais is an adults only hotel located in Mal Pais/Santa Teresa, Costa Rica. We spent 5 nights in a Standard villa in January 2023 and share details about our stay in this post to help you decide if you want to stay here.

Visiting Barbados: Pros and Cons

Last updated: February 2022 Originally Posted: February 14, 2019 Overview: Barbados is the most easterly island in the Caribbean and populated by about 280,000 people. The island is formed by limestone rocks and measures about 430 square kilometers. Barbados is just north of the equator and far away enough from the hurricane belt that itContinue reading “Visiting Barbados: Pros and Cons”

Review: Our Maldivian Vacation at the Anantara Dhigu

The Maldives conjures images of white sand beaches dotted with palm trees, bright aqua ocean water with coral reefs brimming with colorful fish and postcard sunsets from the beach or over the water villas.  With over 105 resorts scatted among 2,000 individual island, the Maldives is a bucket list destination where one can escape theContinue reading “Review: Our Maldivian Vacation at the Anantara Dhigu”

Travel Advisory: The Red Tide in Florida

Last Updated: March 6, 2023 We’ve been traveling to Florida together for over 10 years now and up until recently, we’d never heard of “the red tide”, which is a general term for “harmful algae blooms (HAB) in the ocean”. In this post, we will share information about the red tide affecting Florida beaches rightContinue reading “Travel Advisory: The Red Tide in Florida”

Unfinished Business: 3 Days in Tulum

Earlier in the year, we had taken a day trip to Tulum from Playa Del Carmen and enjoyed ourselves so much that we booked a 3 night/4 day trip to fully enjoy all this jungle surrounded beach community has to offer. While Tulum has become quite trendy and some might even say a victim of itsContinue reading “Unfinished Business: 3 Days in Tulum”

Review: Keo’s Huli Huli Chicken in Anahola and a Beach Picnic in East Kauai

Last updated: January 3, 2020 What is Huli-huli chicken and where do you get it? Huli-huli chicken is rotisserie chicken done the Hawaiian way; the chicken is marinated in pineapple juice, soy sauce, ginger, garlic and other seasonings before being grilled over mesquite wood. “Huli” means turn and during the cooking process, the chicken isContinue reading “Review: Keo’s Huli Huli Chicken in Anahola and a Beach Picnic in East Kauai”