Hilariously funny and so true! There's nothing like laughing (honestly) about ourselves. You crack me up!

The two of us have stayed in Concordia's eco-tents five or six times for as long as two weeks. We have had visiting mouseys, twice. Bugs have never been a problem HOWEVER we always visit in late winter. I'd be hesitant to share an eco-tent with another couple. It WILL be way different than a villa, ...

I stepped on a sea urchin some years ago while lolling in the water off Vieques and I can vouch for the fact that it does hurt....sort of like getting stung by a bee several times. OTOH, in the aftermath I got waited on hand-and-foot by my then-GF for hours and hours until some local wandering up th...

All the building and subsequent runoff of soil and plant matter into the bays ain't helping none, either!

I wouldn't think of not having 4WD. We also take a good look at the tires before we drive off with the vehicle. Most folks are intersted in going with a car in order to save $. I always like to save a buck, but that isn't a place that I would cut costs. I agree! When I see folks driving sparkling n...

Gibney is frequently our first and always our last and frequently in between beach stops while on St. John. It has it all: a perfectly beautiful Caribbean beach. Heck! I even got stung by something in the sand there in March which made my foot swell up and ache but I STILL managed to hobble up, down...

I dunno. It must be hard to have to work two or three jobs just to maintain a more or less hand-to-mouth life in the land where you were born AND be surrounded by and face-to-face with such extreme wealth that you KNOW you'll never get close to having. The only unpleasant encounters we've ever had o...

I'm a beer drinker, too, and there's plenty of Red Stripe on-island to be had BUT you'll be in the Caribbean where rum is made AND is cheap so you've gotta drink it! 8) May I suggest Painkillers? Mix 1 1/2 oz OJ, 4 ox pineapple juice, 1 oz of Coco Lopez coconut creme and 2 oz of Cruzan dark rum in a...

But there it sat at the gate in Newark, marker lights flashing, interior cabin lit up,doors open and ready to receive us...for four freakin' hours BEcauuuuuuuuse the "only available flight crew" was on the ground in Portland, Maine! Another Newark favorite of mine is getting to sit in a &q...

We met some folks who invited us over for painkillers at the villa they were renting. Didn't have to ask me twice. 8) I think it was called Bordeaux Breezes and was certainly up to date with a humongous stainless steel kitchen, a gigantic LCD or plasma television, one of those pools with an invisibl...

My wife accepted an invitation to (what I thought was) Calvary Baptist Church about 100 yards down the road from Miss Lucy's. I was within earshot when she asked if the summer dress she was wearing would be appropriate and was told "Render your heart not your clothing". I didn't go because...

Personally, I like the bar at Aqua Bistro best. The bartenders - Nancy and Larry - are good folks, very attentive and just plain fun to shoot the breeze with. Aqua Bistro has a great lunch menu but I'm not that impressed with their dinner offerings. You HAVE to do Skinny Legs at least once. After al...

We just got back from StJ where we spent a week, with another couple, at Windwardside Calabash Cottages and then a few days on both ends, alone, at Estate Concordia. W/CC is VERY nice! Well laid out, very nicely equipped, fabulous views, comfy and quite private (we laid out in the sun nekkid up ther...

FYI: Recently, we were in the process of buying a home on StJ that we wanted to rent out long term. Just to "test the water" we put an ad in Tradewinds and on the bulletin board at Connections and we got bombarded with telephone calls. When we shared pictures of the property with likely pr...

We took the seaplane back to St. Thomas from St. Croix and I loved it! My wife, OTH, got a bit freaked out when they positioned us inside the plane according to body weight...to keep things in balance. The best part of the ride, IMHO, was landing at Charlotte Amalie (sp?). The pilot dropped us in so...