Now is best time to take an eastern Caribbean cruise
by Alan Solomon, Chicago Tribune
Jan 22, 2018
4 minutes
Maybe, so soon after a deadly duo of hurricanes ravaged some of its islands, this isn't the best time to take that Caribbean cruise.
Or maybe ...
In early September last year, as the hurricane called Irma spun out of the eastern Caribbean toward the state called Florida, Caroline Elkins was safely at home in Murphy, N.C.
But husband, Tim, just in case, had driven to their second home, in Fort Myers on Florida's west coast, even though the weather people had predicted this storm would ride up the state's east coast, the other side.
Irma, being a hurricane, proved unpredictable.
"I went
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