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So I am looking at maps
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:28 pm
by mbw1024
and I don't like maps but I'm bored and I'm REALLY anxious to get the heck on this island already!
If I'm in the Chocolate Hole area and I want to go to Coral Bay it looks like I can go over Gift Hill Rd to Centerline and then out. Is that pretty accurate?
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:56 pm
by Mango
You got it right!
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:00 pm
by liamsaunt
John and I did this for the first time last trip! (Yeah, we are dorks). I would estimate that it saves about 10 minutes.
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:01 pm
by mbw1024
we're dorky too! I'm reading maps for crying out loud to pass the time!
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:17 pm
by California Girl
You may be dorky, but you have the coolest avatar! 
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:19 pm
by toni
If I remember correctly, is that road fairly steep and full of big pot holes?
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:59 pm
by liamsaunt
toni wrote:If I remember correctly, is that road fairly steep and full of big pot holes?
The road is steep, yes,but not as bad as some other roads, from a St. John perspective. I don't think we used our four-wheel drive to navigate it. There were some pot holes, but you could drive around them.
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:35 pm
by Winnie
We took Gift Hill Road back from Coral Bay this morning and it was a wacky as usual, but there were no bad potholes or construction to speak of.
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 6:37 pm
by mbw1024
A LIVE REPORT .. GASP!
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:49 pm
by Eric in NJ
The road to avoid is rte 206, 
how it's even considered s road is beyond me.[/color]
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:24 pm
by StJohnRuth
Eric in NJ wrote:The road to avoid is rte 206, how it's even considered s road is beyond me.[/color]
Oh, now I have to find a map! What's Route 206? Bordeaux road or Catherineburg?
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:30 pm
by mbw1024
I don't even see a 208!
Bordeaux is 108 according to what i'm looking at.
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:39 pm
by nothintolose
The road to Gift Hill is fine with low gear.
The Catherineburg road should be experienced by all
Our first trip to STJ, we stayed at Hakuna Matata and had to drive that road. Being the flatlanders that we are, it scared the crap out of me the first few times. I actually did not want to leave the villa (partially because it was so beautiful) for fear of that road. I think my knuckles were white for 2 weeks after that trip from grabbing the Oh, Sh.. bar.
We drove it again the next time we went back and were thankful that we didn't have to do it that trip.
nothintolose
p.s. If you take the Gift Hill Road don't forget to notice the Fork in the Road (assuming it is still there - last summer when we were there I think I remember it missing a prong).
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:50 am
by Eric in NJ
Hmmm it was 3 years ago but looking at Google Maps I believe it's the road they call John Head Road.
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:24 am
by Ann
We used this road quite a bit in May when we were staying at a villa at Point Rendezvous and had to make a few runs to the Myrah Keating Medical Center. I didn't think it was bad compared to some of the other St. John roads and we never had to use four-wheel drive for the hills (driving a Montero).