
A guest post by JC Perez, author of Heisting the Beard. We’ve all heard of the Duval crawl. That famous street in Key ...

After one sip, you'll be building sand castles on the beach with Wilson. Show of hands, how many of you want to be ...

Wrote a note said be back in a minute Bought a boat and sailed off in it Don't think anybody gonna miss me anyway Last ...




February 3, 2012 By RumShopRyan 7 Comments
The best time to hit popular Caribbean beaches is in the morning. I met up with Big Kahuna at 8pm at the pool bar of Bolongo Bay Resort, our destination, the popular Magens Bay beach on St. Thomas. Magens Bay is St. Thomas' most popular beach. It's a slightly crescent, mile long stretch of white sand that is postcard perfect. On the morning we were exploring the blue water was calm with only … [Read More...]

February 2, 2012 By RumShopRyan Leave a Comment
Wrote a note said be back in a minute Bought a boat and sailed off in it Don't think anybody gonna miss me anyway Last Friday night the city of Fort Myers was Knee Deep with Zac Brown Band fever. Once I heard that ZBB was coming to Southwest Florida, I quickly thought back to seeing him last March in Tampa when the band was touring with Kenny Chesney and the Goin' Coastal tour. The difference … [Read More...]

February 1, 2012 By RumShopRyan 2 Comments
After one sip, you'll be building sand castles on the beach with Wilson. Show of hands, how many of you want to be in the Bahamas right now? Ok, hands down, I can't see you remember. I'll take a salty guess and say about 99% of you had your hands raised skywards. That other 1% must either be somewhere in the islands already or have scurvy. The Abacos Islands in the Bahamas are a … [Read More...]

January 31, 2012 By RumShopRyan Leave a Comment
A guest post by JC Perez, author of Heisting the Beard. We’ve all heard of the Duval crawl. That famous street in Key West that immediately brings thoughts of rum soaked nights and partying at places like Sloppy Joe’s after a long day at Smather’s beach. Well, we could easily argue that the father of the crawl was Ernest Hemingway, the hard drinking, heavy partying, Noble Prize winning … [Read More...]

January 30, 2012 By RumShopRyan Leave a Comment
As you know rum flows through the Caribbean, and when you're in the US Virgin Islands that rum is Cruzan. Want a taste? Almost a week removed from the Castaway Winter Beach Bash at Bolongo Bay Resort on St. Thomas, I keep finding my mind wandering back. It was a great time and I have a lot of stories I want to share with you Castaways who couldn't make it. One of those stories was the rum … [Read More...]

Who I am and Why I Write - Close your eyes and remove yourself from the everyday. Picture your toes sinking into the sand as the waves kiss your ankles and listen to the coconut palms rustle in the gentle sea breeze. That’s a nice feeling isn’t it? I live a little bit of that life and want to share my tropical dreams with you. My name is Ryan and I hale from the land-locked, can’t get any further from the ocean, state of Kansas. I moved to laid back southwest Florida back in 2001 and have … Read More
