Our houses were designed as a box with a top basically. A 24 foot by 24 foot square box which was to be delivered to the property on the back of a flatbed truck and hauled through the Maya Mountains across bridges that were no more than eighteen feet wide. On some bridges, our houses…
In September 2000, Yim and I moved to Vancouver Island. I had been headhunted by an advertising agency called Copeland Communications and offered a considerable increase (+25%) in salary over what Chrysler/BBDO had just offered me, for whom I had just finished launching the PT Cruiser, which was widely considered the most successful car launch…
Blue Creek is a village in the Toledo District of southern Belize. It is a Mopan village, an indigenous, sub-ethnic group of the Maya who speak Kekchi, and home to about 300 residents. The community lies along flat roads, spanning both sides of Blue Creek. It is a medium sized Maya center, which was occupied from…
Glover’s Atoll is a partially submerged atoll located off the southern coast of Belize, approximately 45 kilometres from the mainland. It forms part of the outermost boundary of the Belize Barrier Reef, and is one of its three atolls, the other two being Turneffe Atoll and Lighthouse Reef. The oval-shaped atoll is 20 miles long…
On December 30, 1997, I left to go to Grand Cayman Island. A friend of mine had contacted me and wanted someone to house sit her condo for a month while she was visiting Scotland. I had three weeks vacation coming to me so I took the opportunity to go down south and do some…
Blue Grace was a bit of a dream for me. After returning from an eighteen month project on the island of St. Martin in 1987, where I had been introduced to big open water sailing between the islands of St. Martin, Anguilla and St. Barths while working on the first Tourism Magazine for the Island…
In January of 1989, I visited St. Vincent and the Grenadines to do some sailing and scuba diving. I needed some big water sailing experience on my own and thought that down here, I could sail between a few iconic islands and get some scuba diving in. St. Vincent is one of the least touristy…
Marathon is located in the Middle Keys – about 110 miles south of Miami. Most people fly into either Miami or Ft Lauderdale, rent a car and drive down. It takes approximately 2.5 hours from Ft Lauderdale airport. Since I was going sailing for a week, I decided to take the Keys Shuttle to Marathon…
1985 – 1986 – In 1985, I spotted a small ad in the Montreal Gazette looking for an Art Director & Production Manager to help create the very first magazine for the island of St. Martin and thought, ‘That would be a cool project’, so I applied. A few weeks later, I got a phone…
Martinique is very much a Caribbean Island, but with a difference. When you touch down at the Aimé Césaire airport, you are officially on French soil. In 1946, this former colony was named an Overseas Department of France, and its residents became citizens of the republic. More than just an interesting bit of trivia, this…
