I didn’t bring a book to Turks & Caicos… I brought an iPad with some books on it via the Nook application. I had never really tried to read outside with the iPad, but found it, well, not possible. There was simply too much glare and the back-lit screen isn’t bright enough. When I got home I decided to invest in an eReader.

I knew that I didn’t want a Kindle or the Sony reader, and the new Nook Simple Touch and Kobo Touch seemed very appealing.  I read reviews and summaries but couldn’t decide which to get, so I got them both and took back the one that didn’t measure up.  I’m not going to get into specifics comparing the hardware specs, since Kobo has an accurate comparison chart right on its website.

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I just got back from an amazing and much needed vacation at Club Med’s resort Turkoise in the Turks & Caicos islands.  This was a bucket list item to take a vacation by myself.  I also knocked off the scuba diving challenge as well.   I chose Turkoise based on a recommendation from a colleague and booked it rather impulsively with out much research so I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into.  I had use-it-or-lose-it vacation and had to take it between projects so I needed a place that I could travel to by myself and still have a good time.  When I read that Turkoise was an 18+ resort that catered to solo travelers and friends groups, I was hooked.

I honestly didn’t know much about Club Med prior to the trip.  I expected to get some guff from my friends when I mentioned the resort, but got little.  In my mind Club Med was a dated chain of resorts that was all the rage for the twenty-some baby boomers in the 80′s and was still primarily occupied by those baby boomers today.  I couldn’t have been more wrong!  There was a large variety of age groups, and I had no problem finding some fun young travelers to hang out with.

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