Kimberly Lisagor

Kimberly Lisagor

DISAPPEARING DESTINATIONS

Travel is more than just a visit to a destination. It’s about heeding your wanderlust with heightened awareness and a new sense of urgency.

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Excerpt from Disappearing Destinations

West Caicos Island, British West Indies

In July 2006, five visitors to West Caicos Island pitched their tents behind a swaying cluster of sea oats on a quiet, white sand beach. They spent the afternoon wading in calm, turquoise ocean water and wandering amongh te the sun-baked silver thatch palms. At midnight, they snorkeled amid tiny, ghost-like fish under a velvet sky splattered with stars.

These visitors--a construction foreman, a real estate sales director, an environmental planner, and two travel writers--were the only overnight residents on the eleven-square-mile island.

Willing castaways, they were there to witness and oversee a momentous change: new construction on an island that had been uninhabited for one hundred years. ...

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