Flashback: SCRUBS in The Bahamas!

As a travel publicist, I've had some incredible business trips, from Bal Harbour, Florida to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Among some of the surreal experiences: working the opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando (a blog post for another time); working in the media center for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada (another upcoming blog post); staffing a Sports Illustrated swimsuit photo shoot in Banff, Canada; and hosting the cast of Scrubs in The Islands of The Bahamas. Tough job, but somebody's gotta do it, right?

One of my first exciting business travels was to the gorgeous Out Islands of The Bahamas. I helped coordinate the logistics for a week-long television shoot throughout Hope Town, a quaint village that's part of the Abaco Islands. Around 100 cast and crew members flew a charter flight from LA to Abaco and the TV shoot resulted in two great episodes featuring a destination wedding and plenty of ice-cold Bahama Mamas. Behind-the-scenes footage of the shoot is posted on YouTube:


The following are some photo highlights of our week with the super-friendly cast and crew:

And my very favorite:

Hurricane tracking

My thoughts go out to The Bahamas today...hope everyone is safe!

 

Next stop for Irene: the east coast. Hold on tight, New Yorkers! This is new territory for many of us...

Where to next?

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life." -Jack Kerouac

My upcoming travels:

-July: The Hamptons, Jersey Shore

-August: Vancouver/Whistler, The Bahamas

-September: Germany

A very busy spring...

My upcoming travels:

March: Vancouver (work meetings)
April: The Bahamas (Weather Conference)
May: San Francisco and L.A. (work events)
June: Colorado (for Cara's wedding!)
July: The Bahamas (press trip)

Dreaming of warmer weather...

This freezing cold NYC weather (and the subsequent cold that I caught from being out in it) makes me miss the warm, sun-drenched Bahamas. In going through past posts, I realized I never posted pictures from this summer's "Learn to Cook and Relax" press trip to Eleuthera and Harbour Island (or the Scrubs shoot...but those will come at a later point).

Photos below:

The pink sand beaches of Harbour Island (known as "briland" to locals):

"Queen Conch" stop on Harbour Island cooking crawl. We learned to make our own conch salad:

Cottage at The Cove Eleuthera:


Snorkeling at a pond in Eleuthera (yes, that's an octopus):


Glass Window Bridge in Eleuthera - the dark, menacing-looking Atlantic Ocean on one side, and the turquoise, clear waters of the Caribbean on the other:



Our flight back to the states:




All in a day's work (well...five days, to be exact).

Bahama Mama

Sorry it's been so long since I last posted, but I was in the Bahamas for a solid week for work and then spent the last week trying to play catch-up with my other clients!

The Bahamas Weather Conference was an absolute (and QUITE successful) whirlwind. We stayed at the Westin Our Lucaya on Grand Bahama Island, which was lovely. Palm trees, infinity pools, great restaurants, etc. All of the planning we did over the past eight months totally paid off when multiple people approached me to tell me our team was a "well-oiled machine." They thought we pulled the entire conference off flawlessly, which is fantastic (little do they know that there were a couple of brief moments here and there that were anything but flawless, but we made things work in the end)! 104 meteorologists, 150 live broadcasts from the Bahamas, numerous insightful presentations on weather/forecasting/insurance and the 2008 hurricane forecast (which said it will be an active year, uh oh).

The "well-oiled machine":
My office for the week:



The resort: