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"St. John Island Life (Winter 2010/2011)"
A couple weeks ago we made the realization that our time (as in, time to just us) on St. John would soon be coming to an end. With the arrival of an out of town guest joining us in running 8 Tuff Miles tomorrow (an appropriately named run that crosses the island from [...]
Continue Reading →Oh boy. Sure. My people post all about their amazing adventures on the beaches around St. John here in the USVI. But have they told you about *my* life here?
They took me to the beach one day. It wasn’t fun. Do I look amused? Those waves are scary!! But there are fun things to [...]
Continue Reading →Part of our appeal in wintering in the St. John was that it’s a US Territory in the US Virgin Islands – thus not requiring nearly the amount of logistical challenges as living in another country might pose.
No visa, passport, currency exchange, postal logistics, pet quarantine or language barriers, for instance.
And while we’re [...]
Continue Reading →A week or so ago we were attending a small musical performance not far from our seasonal rental cottage on St. John. As entertainers often do to generate repoire and energy with their audience, the main singer asks where people are from.
He goes around the courtyard asking the short term tourists where they’re visiting [...]
Continue Reading →Our holiday gift to ourselves was a way to take pictures underwater of our snorkeling adventures here on St. John. We looked at an underwater housing for my beloved Canon SD780 and a variety of waterproof digital cameras. We ultimately decided on the FujiFilm XP10, which is water, dust, freeze and shock [...]
Continue Reading →While Chris and I don’t stress about trying to follow a budget (our life is too variable!), a data geek like me enjoys tracking expenses and analyzing trends. We have a cost log published going back a couple years, and we know that many people have found it valuable to get a real-world example [...]
Continue Reading →Last week we decided it was time to have an adventure off of St. John, and headed over to St. Thomas. There are people and car ferries that run just about every hour between Cruz Bay (the more populated side of St. John) and St. Thomas. It was also time for us to do a [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve been enjoying exploring many of the hiking trails and ruins from the sugar plantation days of St. John, and over the weekend we took the Johnny Horn Trail from Coral Bay over to Leinster Bay. This trail quickly ascends straight up over an island hill, with nearly 500 ft in rapid elevation gain. Definitely [...]
Continue Reading →It’s been difficult to remember that it’s the holiday season here in the Virgin Islands. Heck, it’s hard to remember it’s winter here. The weather has been pretty much a constant mid 80s during the day and upper 70s at night (and up in our little mountain cottage, it’s pretty much mid-70s all the time). [...]
Continue Reading →Chances are, that most folks reading this are waking up to some awfully darn chilly weather. So, we’ll do our part to help spread the warmth from our tropical island life.
Enjoy!
Trunk Bay – St. John’s most famous beach – as seen [...]
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