Stop defaulting to the same overcrowded resorts where the most strenuous activity of the day is fighting for a pool chair. I know it’s tempting, but travel is sometimes about more than leisure! For decades, the Caribbean has been marketed exclusively as a place to lie on the sand with a frozen drink. But after …

Right now, sitting in my office in Louisville watching the intense summer humidity roll in, my instinct is to immediately start looking for flights down to the Caribbean. If I’m going to be hot, I may as well be on a beach! For years, finding an island that wasn’t completely overrun by massive, walled-off mega-resorts …