Planning your vacation: fun spots at home and abroad

Ebony, May, 1989

PHOTO : visitors.

PHOTO : Dancing gombeys are part of the colorful street life in Bermuda (top). The masqueraders

PHOTO : appear only at their convenience, but beaches, golf, tennis and water sports are available

PHOTO : year-round. Shopping for bargains in the Bahamas is popular with tourists (above), as is

PHOTO : nighttime entertainment (left) in casinos in Freeport and Nassau.

PHOTO : Boys wade in the crystal-clear surf of a St. Thomas beach in the U.S. Virgin Islands, so

PHOTO : named by Columbus for their untouched beauty. Aside from sun, sand and sea, the islands

PHOTO : boast the best duty-free shopping in the region, as well as superb hotels, dining and

PHOTO : entertainment.

PHOTO : At historic Tuxedo Junction in Birmingham, Ala., one of many sites on the state's Black

PHOTO : Heritage Trail, a symbolically tuxedoed Dr. John Nixon poses in front of the Nixon Bldg.,

PHOTO : which was immortalized by Erskine Hawkins in his song Tuxedo Junction.

PHOTO : The Caribbean can be romantic.