Trinidad and Tobago!
Hello again. Yes I’ve been blog-slacking in my non-travel downtime. I guess that would be called… normal life? What can I say? I don’t want to dump the mundane details of dating, food experiments, and (gasp) work for public consumption. Ok, maybe sometimes, but not lately.
So I’ve been itching to use my PADI certification I got a year ago, and I’ve heard northern Cali diving pretty much sucks. Plus the winter doldrums just have me wanting to go somewhere soon, get in the sun, and beat the summer vacation rush. I again decided to put off a big trip (south america) until later. Like maybe when I have a travel companion who speaks better Spanish than I do 
I decided to make my first trip to the Caribbean. After weeks of research and plane ticket scouring, I passed on Belize, St. Maarten, Bonaire, and a few other ideas and settled on Trinidad and Tobago. Mostly Tobago. Two very different islands, Trinidad with fantastic culture, music (where steel drums were born) and food, Tobago with gorgeous nature, coral reefs, plenty of dive spots, few resorts, and deserted beaches.
Yeah, that should be nice. (pic stolen from Lonely Planet)