The Caribbean 🇰🇳🇦🇬🇩🇲🇱🇨🇹🇹
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life January 25th, 2023 My ultimate tour through the Caribbean This might be the last Caribbean tour for a while. After visiting a good number during the TransAmerica2021 trip together with friends, this time I am back as a solo traveller exploring the islands I have not seen […]
El Salvador 🇸🇻
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life January 22th, 2023 At home I got a few astonishing looks when letting people know that I am going to visit El Salvador. I really enjoyed it’s neighbor Nicaragua not too long ago and I really liked it. So I was not surprised and my hope was […]
San Diego 🇺🇸
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life January 21th, 2022 Like in another post one could say why San Diego again! Well there is never enough SD for me. It’s my second home since having lived there in the 90ies and gone back more or less every year. It was the first time after […]
Liberia, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life Transamerica 2021 STOP 11 October 10, 2021 Panama City, Panama – Liberia, Costa Rica Flight distance: 398 nmHours in the air: 1:12 Liberia & the Peninsula Papagayo, Costa Rica – the land of plentiful A good hour and we landed in Liberia, in the western part of Costa […]
Panama City, Panama 🇵🇦
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life Transamerica 2021 STOP 10 October 8, 2021 Oranjestad, Aruba – Panama City, Panama Flight distance: 621 nm Hours in the air: 1:48 Panama – the country with so many faces We are leaving the islands of the Caribbean for now, heading to Central America. Approach to Panama City […]
Oranjestad, Aruba 🇦🇼🇳🇱
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life Transamerica 2021 STOP 9 October 7, 2021 Willemstad, Curacao – Oranjestad, Aruba Flight distance: 65 nmHours in the air: 0:30 Oranjestad, Aruba – the federated cultures of The Netherlands, the USA and the Caribbean Handling leaving Curacao was a dream again and happened to be topped off […]
Willemstad, Curacao 🇨🇼🇳🇱
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life Transamerica 2021 STOP 8 October 5, 2021 Kralendijk, Bonaire – Willemstad, Curacao Flight distance: 79 nmHours in the air: 0.24 Where pleasure meets biz in the Caribbean So I have to start with a nice episode back on Bonaire. Since I am responsible for ground operations and for […]
Kralendijk, Bonaire 🇧🇶🇳🇱
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life Transamerica 2021 STOP 7 October 4, 2021 Georgetown, Guyana – Kralendijk, Bonaire Flight distance: 744 nmHours in the air: 2:24 Kralendijk, Bonaire – one of the three islands of the Caribbean Netherlands Venezuela really does not like us! When flying the approved flight plan to Bonaire we were […]
Canouan, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 🇻🇨
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life Transamerica 2021 STOP 5 October 1, 2021 The Valley, Anguilla – Canouan, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Flight distance: 345 nm Hours in the air: 1:06 The most pristine beaches in the Caribbean Getting out of Anguilla was a swift affair, let alone that we had to […]
The Valley, Anguilla, BOT 🇬🇧🇦🇮
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life Transamerica 2021 STOP 4 September 30, 2021 Charlotte Amalie, US Virgin Islands – The Valley, Anguilla, British overseas territory Flight distance: 252 nm (Pick up stop in BVI) Hours in the air: 0:30 The Valley, Anguilla Today’s formalities in the US Virgin Islands were swift and easy […]
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 🇺🇸
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life Transamerica 2021 STOP 3 September 29, 2021 Scrub Island, BVI- Charlotte Amalie, US Virgin Islands Flight distance: 60 nmHours in the air: 0:24 The US in The Caribbean! A short hub over and we were in St. Thomas, at the airport that is. What followed was a fine […]
Scrub Island, BVI 🇬🇧🇻🇬
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life Transamerica 2021 STOP 2 September 28, 2021 Saint Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon – Scrub Island, BVI Flight distance: 2577 nm (Fuel stop in Bermuda)Hours in the air: 3:06 / 2:30 First dive into the Virgin Islands Another hectic morning awaited us. We needed fresh Covid tests which […]
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 🇫🇷🇵🇲
Alficionado ♡ treasuring the good sides of life Transamerica 2021 STOP 1 September 26, 2021 Mollis, Switzerland – Saint Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon Flight distance: 3248 nm (Fuel stop in Keflavik, Iceland)Hours in the air: 3:48 / 4:12 An odd French place in Northern America The “oldest Glarner”, a common, sometimes strong wind greeted us at […]