The reasons why Bermuda is one of the world's finest islands include:
• The entire island is surrounded by coral reefs making the water more shallow, calm, and turquoise than the rest of the Atlantic Ocean surrounding it. You can dive, snorkel, or simply look at it. 
• Currency? US dollars. Language? English. Friendly people in Bermuda shorts? Everywhere. What's not to heart?
• The island itself is basically one large botanical garden.
• The beaches have pink sand that is both impossibly soft on your feet and never gets hot.***
• The Bermuda Triangle you've heard about is possibly giant craters in the sea***** causing explosions and is definitely not going to abduct you and cause you to miss your return flight. 
• Speaking of the return flight, it's only two and a half hours from Atlanta. I dare you to get anywhere better in that time. (If you do, let me know ASAP.)
• No iguanas.******
• You clear US customs in the Bermuda airport so when you fly home you walk straight out of the airport like it's a domestic flight.*******
If you, like I, are constantly searching for the perfect island, come to Bermuda and try it out. Even if it's not your dream island, you will have a Bermudaful time.
-KT
*And to explore the world, obvs.
**This is the alternate lifestyle fantasy where I pull a mid-life crisis à la Diane Lane in "Under the Tuscan Sun" but move to Bermuda with no language barrier and spend virtually no time or effort on house renovation. There are several friends/readers out there that I would accept as my Sandra Oh. Feel free to submit applications for this sure-to-be-coveted position.
***I have not found any research**** to support my claim that pink sand doesn't absorb heat and scald your feet like white sand, but you can read this thing about why the sand is pink. My explanation is simply: science. http://mobile.royalgazette.com/article/20120301/FEATURES02/703019903
****Er, Google searches
*****Again, science. http://interestingengineering.com/mystery-of-the-bermuda-triangle-has-finally-been-solved/
******This is a special contribution from Mom. She hates iguanas, y'all. They essentially ruin the entire Caribbean for her.
*******If this doesn't sound like a big deal to you, YOU DON'T KNOW MY LIFE.
Bonus photo for those that read foot notes to the end. I took a picture for a family and they also took mine...and coached me through a variety of poses. 
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