Traveling to St. Lucia at the Dawn of the Coronavirus Pandemic

I’m writing this in mid-May of 2020, and we are all currently living through the age of the pandemic. Here in the American south, most states have begun reopening their economies (fingers crossed), but leisure travel has been more or less non-existent for two months. There is no telling when we’ll be able to bust out our passports again. And yet, in mid-March we took baby E to her eighth country just as the world as we knew it began to close. Here is the story of a six-day Caribbean vacation that began mere hours before the World Health Organization declared the Coronavirus a global pandemic. This is what it was like to travel during the Coronavirus.

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An Affordable Caribbean Vacation in Curaçao

Are you looking for an affordable Caribbean vacation destination? Somewhere that’s easy to reach from the United States and yet largely free of the tourist hordes? Look to Curaçao, an island nation and constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located about 40 miles off the coast of Venezuela. There isn’t much green to be seen on the island, but it has a UNESCO-listed capital, historical ruins to explore, vast swaths of uninhabited desert scrubland and beautiful beaches.

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