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I've been on a number of vacations over the years, and thought it might be interesting to come up with some sort of record of my journeys. This page is still mostly a work in progress.

Location	Details	Date	Comments
Maine		?
Quebec, Canada		??
Cape Canaveral, Florida		???
Mauai, Kauai, and Hawaii		????	twice
Zihuatenejo, Mexico	Hotel Irma	?????	twice
Costa Rica	Rachno Naturalista and Drake's Bay	??????
Belize	Chaa Creek and some beach resort	???????
Anguilla		????????
Antigua	Hawksbill Beach Hotel	?????????
Tonga		March 1996	Interesting but way too long. Don't take 3 week vacations with your parents.
Bahamas	Breezes Bahamas, Nassau	August 2001	Not recommended
Turks & Caicos	Club Med Turqoise, Providenciales	November 2003	Like college with only the parties and on a tropical island.
Grenada	Coyaba Beach Resort	March 2004	Magnificent. Very nice people, beautiful, deserted beaches with cinnamon in the air, and lush mountainous jungles. Perfect.
Princess cruise	Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. John, St. Kitts, Grenada, Isla Margarita (Venezuela)	April 2005	A very nice tour of some less common destinations, although I'm not that big a cruise person. It was very depressing to visit Grenada and see all the damage done by Hurricane Ivan.
Tortola, BVI	Long Bay Beach Resort	March 2006	BVI is British Virgin Islands for you cretins out there who don't hang out at the yacht club. I pictured a tropical paradise with lush mountains leading right down to palm-fringed tropical beaches. Then I visited Tortola and realized it existed. Unfortunately Kim and I both got some awful flu on the way down, but we did stay an extra two days to make up for it.
Northern California	Occidental Inn, Occidental, Sonoma County; Wine Country Inn, St. Helena, Napa County	August 2006	Kim and I got married on this trip to the wine country. We stayed at very nice places and got very spoiled! Kudos to the redwoods for being so tall, quiet, and mystic.
St. Lucia	Discovery at Marigot Bay	February 2007	We decided that St. Lucia would be a nice place to visit, given its reputation for stunning scenery, beaches, snorkeling, etc. We also happened to find that the Discovery at Marigot Bay resort had just opened. Marigot Bay is a wonderful little bay, barely 100 yards wide in places, full of sailboats, very good restaurants, and enormously expensive yachts. We had a good time!
Smokey Mountain National Park	The Lodge at Buckberry Creek	May 2007	After much secrecy, Kim finally revealed to me in May that my birthday present was a trip to the national park, one of the top destinations for nature photographers. We were only there for a few days, over Memorial Day weekend, but it was a great experience, and the truffle butter at our lodge was incredible.
Avalon, NJ	239 West 23rd Street!	August 2007	After a string of more exotic destinations, a week at the shore was in order for some much-needed rest and relaxation. I did take some bird pictures at the Wetlands Institute in Stone Harbor, but it just doesn't really compare.