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"Make Believe" Trip Report
"Make Believe" Trip Report
[Okay, I am living in procrastination land right now so I thought I'd give this a try being that the trip reports are a bit low, but going to probably really pick up in the next few weeks.
I don't know if this will catch on but I've seen this done on another forum and it really seems to be quite fun. I'll start the "report" and everyone, well, you just add to the story. You just never know what could happen!
Oh yes, and we'll keep it board- appropriate, of course. Which around here, I guess is borderline appropriate.
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Day 1
After a long travel day with too many stops in too many airports and not enough rum, we arrived on the dock on STJ. Ahhh, what a beautiful sight. Like coming home.
We see our car waiting for us and as we walk up the dock we wave to R & R on the balcony of "you know where." Before we know it, we're off to stock up on some necessities and headed to the villa. Ahhh... time to decompress.
But as we're driving down Centerline...
(okay, anyone else want to try??)
I don't know if this will catch on but I've seen this done on another forum and it really seems to be quite fun. I'll start the "report" and everyone, well, you just add to the story. You just never know what could happen!
Oh yes, and we'll keep it board- appropriate, of course. Which around here, I guess is borderline appropriate.
]Day 1
After a long travel day with too many stops in too many airports and not enough rum, we arrived on the dock on STJ. Ahhh, what a beautiful sight. Like coming home.
We see our car waiting for us and as we walk up the dock we wave to R & R on the balcony of "you know where." Before we know it, we're off to stock up on some necessities and headed to the villa. Ahhh... time to decompress.
But as we're driving down Centerline...
(okay, anyone else want to try??)
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Following the donkeys/Nice A$$es, we realized we were way too close too the smoothie stand to not stop, so we did. A couple smoothies later, we were settling into island time. The handy St. John donkeys, never having been known to be helpful before, were packed and ready to go. Except one, who drank all the rum...
OK - I had put this under a different post.
The following trip report is fictional and the names have been changed to protect the innocent or guilty. The report is just a fix – repeat, just a STJ fix and is not true.
Well, the day has finally come that we’re off to our long awaited vacation on STJ. We jump in the car at 2:30 AM and trudge through 42 feet of snow to get to the only air strip within a thousand miles of where we live. We breeze through security because the one and only security guard is asleep at the coffee machine.
“Scare Air” arrives right on time and because it’s just us and another crazy couple – they give us triple frequent flyer miles. We spend the first day in air – the second day in air and finally arrive on STT on the 3rd day. To our amazement – our luggage made it too.
We decide to rent the Jeep on STT and take the car barge over to STJ. Just for the thrill of it – we decide to drive on the right. Oh man, did we tick-off a lot of “Island Folks”. It didn’t matter how many times I started off the conversation with “Good Morning – how are you this morning.” I was yelled at in languages I never knew existed.
We made it to the car barge just in time to drive on forward. My Jeep is now headlight-to-headlight with the car in front of me. OK, so I was to back-on the barge, I’ll just back-off when we get to STJ.
Arrived on STJ and are met by our villa agent who is also the mosquito control guy for the island (good to know). He takes us all around the island looking for our villa – at last he finds it - we find out that he’s new to the job. It’s OK, we’re here.
The villa is great – has a roof, walls and windows. Luxury compare to our digs back home. So we dump our stuff and head to the beach. I remember someone saying – Take this trail for about a mile, turn left at the big “Poison Tree”, continue on for about another mile, turn right at the iguana and go down the hill – the beach will be 3 miles to the left. We make it to the beach just as the sun is going down – Ah, a beautiful sight.
The next day we decide to go into town and get something to drink. So, we hop into the jeep and head to town. Low and behold, we found a new town on STJ. It’s called “Iguana Pass” and has two bars and an Iguana Food Station. So we decide to do the “Pub Crawl” to both bars. We later found out that they were both owned by the same Iguanaan.
Well, the pattern pretty much repeated it’s self for the next few days and the trip back home was the same as coming down – just in reverse.
Hope this made you laugh and gave you your STJ Trip Report Fix. Just having a little fun til we all can get back to the islands. Have a great day everyone.
The following trip report is fictional and the names have been changed to protect the innocent or guilty. The report is just a fix – repeat, just a STJ fix and is not true.
Well, the day has finally come that we’re off to our long awaited vacation on STJ. We jump in the car at 2:30 AM and trudge through 42 feet of snow to get to the only air strip within a thousand miles of where we live. We breeze through security because the one and only security guard is asleep at the coffee machine.
“Scare Air” arrives right on time and because it’s just us and another crazy couple – they give us triple frequent flyer miles. We spend the first day in air – the second day in air and finally arrive on STT on the 3rd day. To our amazement – our luggage made it too.
We decide to rent the Jeep on STT and take the car barge over to STJ. Just for the thrill of it – we decide to drive on the right. Oh man, did we tick-off a lot of “Island Folks”. It didn’t matter how many times I started off the conversation with “Good Morning – how are you this morning.” I was yelled at in languages I never knew existed.
We made it to the car barge just in time to drive on forward. My Jeep is now headlight-to-headlight with the car in front of me. OK, so I was to back-on the barge, I’ll just back-off when we get to STJ.
Arrived on STJ and are met by our villa agent who is also the mosquito control guy for the island (good to know). He takes us all around the island looking for our villa – at last he finds it - we find out that he’s new to the job. It’s OK, we’re here.
The villa is great – has a roof, walls and windows. Luxury compare to our digs back home. So we dump our stuff and head to the beach. I remember someone saying – Take this trail for about a mile, turn left at the big “Poison Tree”, continue on for about another mile, turn right at the iguana and go down the hill – the beach will be 3 miles to the left. We make it to the beach just as the sun is going down – Ah, a beautiful sight.
The next day we decide to go into town and get something to drink. So, we hop into the jeep and head to town. Low and behold, we found a new town on STJ. It’s called “Iguana Pass” and has two bars and an Iguana Food Station. So we decide to do the “Pub Crawl” to both bars. We later found out that they were both owned by the same Iguanaan.
Well, the pattern pretty much repeated it’s self for the next few days and the trip back home was the same as coming down – just in reverse.
Hope this made you laugh and gave you your STJ Trip Report Fix. Just having a little fun til we all can get back to the islands. Have a great day everyone.
FlaGeorge
"Swim Against The Current - Even a Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow"
"Swim Against The Current - Even a Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow"
(haha, guys... thanks for playing).
So we took our little drunk a$$ parade and went up a hill to our villa. Which hill? Well I guess it doesn't really matter. When we got to the top we saw a paved driveway and a pool. What more do you need?
The sun was beginning to set and someone fired up the grill. If Day 1 was like this, we knew day 2 was going to be great...
So we took our little drunk a$$ parade and went up a hill to our villa. Which hill? Well I guess it doesn't really matter. When we got to the top we saw a paved driveway and a pool. What more do you need?
The sun was beginning to set and someone fired up the grill. If Day 1 was like this, we knew day 2 was going to be great...
The villa "Makebelive" was just perfect. We decided to start with the most important thing... making drinks, thank god the a$$ had left some rum, but lo and behold the blender did not work. Running to the phone and calling our villa rep they assured us someone would be over in a jiffy and since we were so inconvenienced they insisted our villa be free of charge for our 3 week stay. After that we...
Oops, we just slipped from fiction to fantasymelmd wrote:The villa "Makebelive" was just perfect. We decided to start with the most important thing... making drinks, thank god the a$$ had left some rum, but lo and behold the blender did not work. Running to the phone and calling our villa rep they assured us someone would be over in a jiffy and since we were so inconvenienced they insisted our villa be free of charge for our 3 week stay. After that we...
Wow, did he get a view. But soon enough the frozen drinks were flowing and the villa rep jumped in with us. We laughed, drank, and swam the night away.......put on our snorkel gear to get a better look at the underwater sea life and much to our surprise there was K.C. swimming down below waving to us with that big goofy grin on his face. We confessed we weren't big on country music, but he insisted we come to his villa anyway for the remainder of our month-long stay, promising that his staff would take care of all our needs. So we took him up on his offer, called in the asses/pigs, loaded up our stuff and off we went. Up to this point, our trip had been pretty uneventful, but you'll never in a million years believe what happened next!.....sea-nile wrote:proceeded to mix up a ton of delicious drinks. Sea nile was out on the deck taking 1000 sunset pictures.
then everone decided to swim in the pool.
Next we...