Posts Tagged ‘caribbean’

I know. Haiti isn’t the first place to come to mind when pondering a tropical getaway which is why I decided to write about it for this particular Trazzler writing contest. (No, it isn’t the pity vote or the sympathy vote.) When I sat down to think of all the islands I’ve been to I [...]

Sunset in St Pete., FL. Photo: Adrienne C. Wilson Since I’ve been back home and catching up with friends either on the phone or over dinner everyone has been probing and picking at my brain. What have you been up to? Where have you been? Why did you go there? For work? For play? 2007 [...]

Press play and enjoy the ride. These are two short videos I created with my dinky Kodak camera while cruising through the streets of Port-au-Prince on a rainy day. There is something about seeing the people of Haiti in motion and the colorful tap-taps once more that makes me smile. It may not be tomorrow [...]

Looking down from the restaurant onto the night-time Jacmel, Haiti streets just before heading to the Mizik Festival. For dinner I had the Cabrit creole (Creole Goat) and a large Papaille au lait (Papaya with milk). Délicieux! Photo: Adrienne C. Wilson Tap-Tap road block in Port-au-Prince. Photo: Adrienne C. Wilson One of the many motorbikes [...]

Huh, what, whoa… I know. Before flying the friendly skies to the West Indies I had briefly mentioned going to the Dominican Republic here on my own space and confessed also wanting to travel into Haiti as well on Gadling. I put a lot of planning into that trip and it disheartened me to cancel [...]

Before I begin with divulging any details from my trip let me start by stating this: “Time has no mercy on the ambitious for there is never enough of it and favors for the lazy who never does enough with it.” Adrienne C. Wilson I’m sitting here and it is a little after midnight now [...]

In case you missed some of my updates at Gadling while I was away here are some Postcards from Trinidad & Tobago or simply me and my camera at work. I hope these hold you over as updates and exclusive photos are to follow. Ice cold brews over conversation at Crobar. Darryl’s not mine. I [...]

So much to say about Trinidad… Where do I begin? I had an amazing time. I met some amazing people. Strangers at first – but feel more like family now than ever. What on earth drives a 22 year girl to visit a 3rd world country in the deep Caribbean alone? What ideas had her [...]