Sun-kissed and amused by the brouhaha,
The Big Bang Theory Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin returned from a Caribbean getaway with
How I Met Your Mother no apologies for keeping his vacation destination a secret or for going there without his security detail.
The first-term Democrat's
How I Met Your Mother dvdwhereabouts became the subject of speculation and news reports after staff members said they either didn't know where he was or
The Big Bang Theory dvdwouldn't say after he left Thursday.
Adding to the public interest in his whereabouts,
true blood dvd Vermont got walloped by its biggest-ever March snowstorm,
true blood on dvd which dumped more than two feet of snow in places and closed schools and some state government offices.
Shumlin revealed
cheap dvd Wednesday that he had been to the island of Dominica in the West Indies and that he had purposely
dvd store asked his staff not to disclose it — so he could be a private citizen and so the island wouldn't be subjected to
The Big Bang Theory dvd the hubbub of a visiting dignitary.
He defended the secrecy of his four-day vacation and his
The Tudors season 4 decision to wave off his security detail — plainclothes
Army Wives dvdVermont State Police troopers who shadow him wherever he goes in Vermont.
He said he took the advice of former
Lie To Me dvd Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, who told Shumlin and others at a recent training for new governors how to get along in their
mad man dvdnew roles.
One suggestion was that "occasionally, when
One Tree Hill dvdyou take a vacation in a stable democracy where they don't know who you are, go without security and really take a vacation," Shumlin said.
TV Series On DVD "I took his advice. We thought it was best that the little island of Dominica didn't
Chuck dvd know that I was the governor. They didn't. ... It was great to be an ordinary citizen for a few days."
He said he would never go without
Teletubbies 4 security if he was on state business, but that it was appropriate in this case.
"The people in Dominica and the small communities
Criminal Minds dvdwhere I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that," he said.