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All the way to Curacao, I feared the worst. My long-planned trip to this Dutch-flavored Caribbean island came in late September last year -- the height of hurricane season. A day before my departure, Hurricane Rita was veering toward the Florida Keys. I knew that Rita was barreling north and that Curacao was comfortably out of the center of major storm activity. Still, I worried that in this stormy season I would spend the entire time watching rain pelt the beach from my hotel window.
But two hours after landing, I was ambling along Mambo Beach, a popular hangout for Curacao sunbathers. The temperature was 81. A soft breeze floated in from the west. The sky was a cloudless cornflower blue. And a cluster of revelers boogied to Latin and American Top-40 tunes along the beach.See the full content of this document
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Tropical Spice
During my visit -- and, by most accounts, all year long with allowances for slight temperature shifts, a brief rainy season and an occasional change of dance songs -- that blissful report would hold strong.
June marks the beginning of hurricane season, and Caribbean- bound travelers seeking safe harbor from the threat of storms -- the season runs through November -- would be hard-put to come up with a safer bet than this southernmost Caribbean outpost. Leading Aruba and Bonaire as the largest of the so-called ABC islands, it lies in a narrow ocean region at the southern tip of the Lesser Antilles, where hurricanes rarely tread.While cheaper lodging and good...See the full content of this document
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