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Hawaii, The Big Island: Probably not the Hawaii you’re thinking of.
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Hawaii, The Big Island: Probably not the Hawaii you’re thinking of.

07/07/201001/20/2023 Posted byPeter Crosby

It came as a shock when our plane touched down in the Proterozoic Era.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico: Where so many speak Spanish, you think you’re in California.
CaribbeanNorth Americatravel

San Juan, Puerto Rico: Where so many speak Spanish, you think you’re in California.

05/11/200712/08/2022 Posted byPeter Crosby

We spent a week in the not-so-exotic — but still technically foreign — Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

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Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles: It’s French. No, it’s Dutch. No, French…
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Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles: It’s French. No, it’s Dutch. No, French…

10/23/200301/20/2023 Posted byPeter Crosby

It’s Sint Maarten, Netherlands Antilles on one side, and Saint Martin, French West Indies on the other. Weird, right?

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Jamaica: Land of sun, fun and Cohibas.
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Jamaica: Land of sun, fun and Cohibas.

11/10/199612/08/2022 Posted byPeter Crosby

We visit a Caribbean paradise and like it. Mostly.

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Oahu Hawai‘i: “All expenses paid trip” turns out to be Advertising Club ruse.
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Oahu Hawai‘i: “All expenses paid trip” turns out to be Advertising Club ruse.

10/10/199612/08/2022 Posted byPeter Crosby

When the chance for a free trip to Oahu presented itself, I pounced like a hungry cheetah on a weakened caribou.

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Travel Reports

  • Gilroy, California: The garlic capital and most vampire-free city in America.
    09/05/1998
  • Amsterdam is the (Nether)land of pot, prostitution, and polders.
    10/10/2017
  • Miami and Key West: Our virgin visit.
    11/21/1994
  • Prague: Where people hate expensive beer almost as much as Communism.
    08/19/2014
  • Reading, England: It’s close to a lot of other, better places to visit.
    03/02/2010
  • Lisbon is the city San Francisco could’ve been if the Internet hadn’t totally effed it up.
    03/03/2020
  • South America: We visited our fellow Americans below the equator.
    06/03/2012

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    11/01/2022
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The CrosbyReport™ is written by former Advertising Creative Director turned internationally unknown tourist, Peter Crosby. Typed up while day-drinking in Tampa, Florida, this site chronicles Peter’s travels to far more interesting places around the world. All writing and photos are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 unless otherwise noted.

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