Flying West
Sorry for the lack of posts. Traveling again. I'll be back in full force on Monday. Happy Thanksgiving. Cheerio!
Sorry for the lack of posts. Traveling again. I'll be back in full force on Monday. Happy Thanksgiving. Cheerio!
Off to Harbour Island, Bahamas kids to stretch out the warm weather pattern we've been having. Good timing too since a cold front is coming. Thank god I packed my boardshorts and sun-tan lotion. I'll have internet, but postings will be limited until next week.
I wrote about this beautiful place (where I'm going) way back in April 2004. Sun and fun..here I come.
As Argentina recovers from an economic crisis and the leisure industry revives, Buenos Aires is cultivating its image as a Latin American rebel that embraces the social values of Europe more than macho culture and Roman Catholic doctrine. via reuters.
One of my dear friends and former boss(one of the best, may I add) Wallace Tutt, has one of the most amazing pieces of land in the Caribbean that I've ever had the pleasure to set foot on.
Caribe Cay as it is called, is an island (yes, he owns an island!!) nestled between North Eleuthera and chic Harbour Island in the Bahamas. Wallace and his partner Don reside there most of the year, with occasional trips to Miami Beach for provisions and such. This island is equipped with a main house, two separate guest huts, a private bar and beach, and a light house (a good beacon for those inebriated nights at Sea Grapes, on Harbour Island).
Caribe Cay is a little piece of heaven in the middle of the Caribbean. I know this because I was fortunate enough to have had a hand in the interior design of the house (click on the GENRE article in the site written by Christopher Ciccone)and guest quarters and spent several months there during the installation. Those were amazing times and a piece of my life that I will never forget.
Wallace, who built and renovated Gianni Versace's house in Miami Beach, didn't stop there. Always ahead of the pack, he next built the luxurious and ultra chic Rock House on Harbour Island. Elle McPherson, Al Pacino and many others are regulars there.
Zoom Vacations is the premier travel company catering to the gays and lesbian folks who tend to think "outside the box". At least, thats the way I see it.
We've all done the circuit scene and they are fun for what they are. But sometimes its nice to deviate from the "hotel, to the circuit party and back" route. You miss everything that's around you.
Besides, with the amount of money that gays and lesbians spend on the different parties during such events, you could easily take an nice long vacation to somewhere exotic. In other words..it's just plain mathematics. We could do much more with the cash we're spending!! Its that kind of thinking that keeps Zoom Vacations at the top and is the desired travel company of many of us.
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