Bob Curley is a freelance travel writer and guidebook author who has written extensively about his home state of Rhode Island as well as his other favorite islands in the Caribbean. His work has appeared in hundreds of print and online publications including Rhode Island Monthly, Providence Monthly, Newport Life, Coastal Living, AFAR, USA Today, and Four Seasons magazine. When he's not off exploring he lives in a lakeside cottage with his wife, dog, cat, and several very large raccoons, with a rushing waterfall, croaking bullfrogs, and honking geese providing the soundtrack to summer, and sunrises over the water for wakeup calls on winter mornings.