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  • Yok Ha: The Resort

    Yok Ha is a small resort: Three acres (only slightly more than one acre has been cleared of mangroves), five cabanas, a staff housing building and a dining room/bar/kitchen/common building. That’s it. But, really, that’s not everything. Yok Ha is all of this: And a little haiku to remember it all: Azul, turquoise, greenWater lapping, […]

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  • Our Own Island Paradise

    Early this spring, The Boy made his vacation preferences very clear: Somewhere quiet. Somewhere private. Somewhere all-inclusive. Somewhere that requires a passport. With those marching orders, I started looking for a good deal. I found one through Living Social – a seven-night stay at an all-inclusive resort, Yok Ha, located on a private island off the coast […]

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  • It Figures

    So as you might be able to tell from the plethora of photos from the past three days, The Boy and I slipped away from home for the long weekend. It just figures that we’d use our soon-to-expire flight credit from our hurricane-cancelled flight last fall to go to San Antonio…where record rainfall triggered the […]