Nassau – The Trip Home
We spent our last day in Nassau on the beach, enjoying the warm weather. The beach was not crowded, which made it even more pleasant.
The beach at the Sheraton Cable Beach in Nassau -- life is good.
As we relaxed on the beach we saw a young couple with their little daughter, I guess she was 3 years old, sitting near us. They had been near us almost every time we were on the beach, so my wife decided to say hello to them. That did not go very well because they could barely speak English, they were visiting from Moscow, Russia.
All I can say is this: I don’t know what the husband does for a living, but if he can leave Moscow in November to go the Bahamas, he needs to keep that job!
We ate lunch at Twin Brothers on our last full day, then prepared for the trip home.
We got up early, checked out of the hotel, and took a cab to the airport and checked in for our flight on American Eagle. We’d fly to Miami, have a three-and-a-half hour layover, then fly to Dallas/Fort Worth, then back to Austin.
I thought that the layover in Miami would allow us enough time to clear customs and still make our flight to DFW, but it turned out it didn’t matter how long our layover was.
We went through the security line in the Nassau terminal, had our passports stamped, went around a corner and saw that we had to go through security again, but this time it was American security. TSA had a customs/immigration/security checkpoint in the Nassau airport! That meant that we could clear customs before we ever got on the plane and not have to deal with it once we got to Miami! That was great and made our trip home much easier!
After clearing customs we went into the departure terminal, grabbed coffee and donuts at the Dunkin’ Donuts, then boarded our American Eagle flight to Miami. An hour later we were back on US soil.
AE parks its aircraft at the far end of the Miami airport; after we got off the plane we had to board a bus back to the terminal. That was not easy, the bus could barely hold all of the passengers. A second bus was behind ours but we could not use it, it was reserved for the four crew members of our plane. So, they had a large bus to themselves, while we were packed like sardines in ours. Thankfully it was only a 5 minute ride to the terminal.
We spent time in the Admiral’s Club, then boarded our flight to Dallas. Sadly, we were on a 737, a nice aircraft but not nearly as nice as the 767 we took a week earlier. Smooth flight to Dallas, a 75 minute layover, and than a quick flight back to Austin. We were home by 9:15 that night.
Looking back, my wife and I agreed that this was the most relaxing trip we have ever had. Considering the fact that we have done 8 trips to Hawaii, that’s saying a lot!
Nassau has several historical sites to visit, such as Fort Charlotte. It has many tourist sites, both old and new, including the botanical gardens and Paradise Island. These are all worth visiting, but we decided not to. Our goal on this trip was to relax, and that is what we did. We had no itinerary, we could have taken off our watches on the first day and not put them back on until the last. There was no site we HAD to see, no place we HAD to be by a certain time. We wanted to relax, and that is what we did.
We have already decided to go back to Nassau next year; we’ll stay at the Sheraton again. And I can guarantee we’ll eat at Twin Brothers again. Maybe we’ll even see some of the sites we missed on this trip.
We came home with many fond memories, and souvenirs too. We look forward to our return trip!
