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44th Antigua Charter Yacht Show Directory 100% Better Than St. Maarten!

I'm posting this blog entry from my blackberry as I drink my first morning coffe at the Antigua Yacht Club Marina. I placed two show directories on my table to review them as the brokers started walking in.

Posted: Dec. 8, 2005 09:03 AM

St. Maarten and Antigua Charter Yacht Shows If American Airlines Can Take Us There!

This morning I woke up at 3 AM to take my 7:15 American Airlines flight (AA 815) from New York's JFK to San Juan Puerto Rico and connecting to St. Maarten with AA 1151 flight scheduled for 1:10 PM from San Juan to St. Maarten.

Posted: Dec. 4, 2005 04:37 PM

Grand Cayman Island Turned Into Tourist Trap

This morning 6 cruise ships arrived to the Grand Cayman Island bringing more than 15,000 tourists ashore. Restaurants, jewelry shops, gift shops and every single store doing business with tourists in this island has one of the most expensive pricing

Posted: Nov. 17, 2005 06:59 PM

Don't Fly JetBlue From Newark To Anywhere!

Don't fly JetBlue fom LaGuardia to anywhere either for that matter. I fly JetBlue from JFK to Ft Lauderdale every other weekrn I'm OK with it. I own their stock. Did not sell it yet. Only once the TVs didn't work, which sucked. Generally speaking I d

Posted: Nov. 11, 2005 06:59 PM

Plane Travel Is My Fantasy (I hate to fly)

I'm posting this blog entry 30,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean on my way to sunny Turkey to take a break from this year's hurricane seasonrn I'm reading the Turkish Airlines in flight magazine "Guest of the Month" editorial by Mehmet Ali Birand, a

Posted: Nov. 3, 2005 06:59 PM

Ft Lauderdale Show Postponed ...

... for two days. As a result of the Hurricane Wilma impact on the show Superyacht Society also revised its calendar of events during the show, and cancelled some scheduled activities.

Posted: Oct. 23, 2005 07:59 PM

I'm having lunch with Johnny Depp ...

... and his publicist blond lady at the pub around the corner from this morning's stabbing night club "Funky Buddha." He is ssitting at the next table from me. Shall I take a picture with him? :-)

Posted: Sep. 28, 2005 07:59 PM

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