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Small group travel is a popular trend, allowing adventure seekers to make the most of their vacation - taking advantage of savings through pooled resources, and enjoying shared experiences, while avoiding the inefficiencies that may come with larger groups. Three couples from Stockbridge, Massachusetts has done exactly that for the past 17 years, travelling to different destinations all over the Caribbean and the Bahamas. “We look at a map, and start looking around,” shared, Bronly Boyd, travelling with his wife Sarah,
along with Paul and Lenore Sundberg, and Stephanie and Carl Bradford - adding that they’d been friends for 40 years, and had all met in Stockbridge, having gravitated there from somewhere else. “We do all of our own arrangements, and make our own reservations - the car, airplane, the whole thing - we don’t use travel agents,” he expressed. After traversing and enjoying Abaco, and the Exumas, the couples who said they do a different island on all of their trips decided to try another Bahamian family island, and discovered Eleuthera in 2017. “We found a couple of villas that made sense, and we finally found one that suited our needs,” Bronly explained. The group settled into their villa tucked away on French Leave’s pink sand beach for two weeks. “Our vacation house is great, it’s what we typically like to find,” he added. The couples who ranged in age from 65 to 77, said that once their children were all grown up and gone, they expanded their travel reach and nurtured their yen to discover other places. “We like to explore, we’ve been all over the island, from North to South. We go to any beach we can see, we stop and check it out. We have some