Sounds from Scotland

One of my favorite artists on the planet!! Paolo Nutini! Check him out!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsx-JVymaGk
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G Adventure Tours

                                                                     

                        I am obsessed with G Adventures!! They offer such beautiful tours with small groups (usually no more than 12 people) that I can't stop daydreaming about being on one of their adventures! Experiencing everywhere from the mountain tops of Macchu Picchu to exploring the tea fields of Sri Lanka. There is a special place in my heart for this tour company that really tries their best at making their travelers have the best experience while truly get to know each destination!  They offer tours on all different levels. Based on how active you want to be or how 'local' you want to live. They even offer accommodations for the younger free spirit travelers staying in hostels. You travel with a tour guide the entire time and have a city tour in most cities as well as daily breakfast and some meals which allow enough free time on your own to get a taste of each place. G Adventures takes traveling to an all new level and I hope you explore all G Adventures has to offer!  https://www.gadventures.com/ . Call/Text me for your next G Adventure!

One Happy Island

Aruba is the reason I travel! To meet people, taste local cuisine and explore the beauty of  the destination. This was my first visit to the Dutch Caribbean island and can't wait to return! The beaches are beautiful, the locals are super friendly and I loved that all-inclusive resorts did not dominate the beauty of the views.

There are so many restaurants, bars and shopping just outside the hotel areas you could easily experience the local flavors of the island and nightlife on your own. Although I did stay at the RIU Palace Antillas, which is all-inclusive it was modest in comparison to some resorts in Punta Cana and Mexico I have been too. It was nice to have that options during the day and then head into town at night. I stayed on Palm Beach, which is know as the high rise beach and then Eagle Beach a few miles down is the low rise beach. There are plenty of casinos around the island for those that are feeling lucky and renting a car is much safer and easier to do here than most other Caribbean islands. You do feel the influence of Venezuela being only 15 miles from shore and the Dutch spirit as well. Most locals on the island speak 5 languages and the drinking water is voted top 5 in the world! Pretty impressive for an island home to 108,000+  multi cultural residents!

The Arikok National Park consumes 20% of the island and is worth a day of exploring along with a bar crawl on the Kukoo Kunuku Party bus! The people of this One Happy Island love to dance, drink and have a good time whatever they are doing and make sure you feel like a local when you are right there along with them doing it!!