Category: CARIBBEAN
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TAKING A RESORT DIVE COURSE IN THE BAHAMAS
The shark looked 20 feet long. Or maybe that was the length of my excitement. I had last scuba-dived 20 years before, when I took a resort course in the Florida Keys. Not because I had needed instruction: I’ve been a certified diver since age 28. Rather, because I was a mom trying to keep…
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TAKING A BITE OUT OF JAMAICA
“Diana, what exactly do you do with these green bananas?” I asked. Diana looked at me with inquisitive eyes, in a what-do-you-mean-you-don’t-know way. “I bought these green bananas by mistake, thinking they’d ripen. But they haven’t.” She smiled sweetly and proceeded to show me how to cook them. “Slice the top and bottom, make a…