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Well I've completed one of my top things I have to do in my life. This last week we had some amazing people in from all around the USA. They all belonged to organization called Van's Air Force. What all of them have are their own airplanes called RV's. "RV" ? ?? same thing I thought they fly motor homes...ahah. No so RV stands for recreational Vehicle. And this is such a neat thing is the planes they fly are kit planes that most of them built in their garage at home in their spare time. They start building the [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 29th 2007 | 413 Views | [diary=153298]

Paul and Mitch
before the flight
Getting Fuel

I took the train on Easter Sunday to West Palm Beach. It’s about an hour train ride. I was going to met some friends from Grand Turk in West Palm and have some supper with them. So I started my way to Joe and Loretta’s house. Joe has this world class bar in his back yard. It’s my second time being there. Well I got there around 4 Pm on Sunday. Joe had some Ice cold beers ready for me right as I get there. We sat in his bar and few beers before we started the BBQ and cooked [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 14th 2007 | 4692 Views | [diary=148731]

Trump's golf
Trump
Palm Beach

Well I made my way from Grand Turk to Ft. Lauderdale on Wednesday. I planed this trip for a nice vacation away. I picked Ft. Lauderdale to spend a week. I really wanted to check out the city that I have flown into many times. I also wanted to look at a new possible job I have been researching the last couple months. The job is to get onto some private yachts. Ft. Lauderdale is one of the largest yachting cities in the world. So what a better place to start research. So I flew from Grand Turk to Provo [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 11th 2007 | 145 Views | [diary=147661]

The Port
Yachts
West Palm Beach

Well my time is running out in the Turks and Caicos Islands. So I wanted to really everyone know some places in the Turks Islands. So here's a bit of a history you may have never learned. There are two major islands in the Turks group of the Turks & Caicos. The first is Grand Turk the Capital city where Christopher Columbus was thought to have first made landfall in 1492. The Second is Salt Cay, Salt cay is a island about 2 1/2 mile long and is now primary filled with abandoned salt ponds. In its day salt cay [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 20th 2007 | 571 Views | [diary=140252]

the salt windmills
Salt Cay
white House

Hey Everyone, It's been a long time since my last blog. Well a lots happened since then. About a month ago my Parents Came out to visit me. Since leaving for Thailand about 2 years ago I've seen the about twice. So This was a great trip and it was nice to see Mom and Dad. They came down for 12 days following a 6 day cruise to the Cayman Islands and Jamaica. This was the First time they were ever in the Caribbean. As a child we travelled quite often to places like Florida, Minnesota, and Banff but never to [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 5th 2007 | 319 Views | [diary=135288]

Me and Mom at the Cruise Center
At the Beach
Rum and Reggae Ship

Well another Great night in Grand Turk!!! On Saturday night we had a Birthday Party For Tayna, she’s the owner of the Sand Bar in Grand Turk. Which is a great little bar on The beach. The Party was at the Old Prison in the center of town. The Old Prison was converted Into a tourist attraction for island guest and cruise ship visitors. It was operational from the 1800 to early 1900’s. So on Saturday it was a dress up party in Medieval costumes and mystical creatures at it was Private invite only. So Me, JW and Anna- Luceal got [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 5th 2007 | 479 Views | [diary=135377]

Birthday Party
The Group
Prison

I decided to take a vacation from Grand Turk so I booked a trip on Friday afternoon to Dominican Republic. So I flew on Monday and planning a trip for one week. I flew from Grand Turk to Provo where my plane was delayed for 3 hours because they didn’t have enough airplanes. So they chartered a plane in from Dominican Republic to pick us up in Turks and Caicos Islands. Once we were getting ready to start going when a lady next to and ask me if that’s gas coming out of the engine ( flowing out of the engine [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 2nd 2006 | 479 Views | [diary=82422]

plane
Kite Beach
30 feet of air

Well was another trip to Gibbs Cay“Key”. Gibbs Cay is about a 25 minute ride from Grand Turk. We only go to the Cay on special trips and today was one of them. Well it started off with two dives in the morning in Grand Turk on the Wall. At 9am did our first dive and we the second was done by 12:30pm. After that we all got off and went for something to eat before our big trip out to the Cay. I packed the boat with a cooler full of water, ice and Jon’s world famous Rum Punch. The [View Full Entry]

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Published: June 4th 2006 | 933 Views | [diary=64104]

The Rays making pass
Snorkeling with rays
Lemon Shark

Well today was great.. …2 weeks of training and learning to run the boats. My day started off in the morning getting the boats in and ready for the morning dives. Today we have the grand opening of the new Carnival Cruise Lines Terminal in Grand Turk. The day started off great sunny day, no wind, the ship passed right in front of my house approx. 730am. Grand Turk doesn’t have too many tourist walking around but on this day they had ship coming in the total population of the whole island is 3,500 people and just one ship has as [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 20th 2006 | 1311 Views | [diary=59901]

Grand turk sun set
Coral
underwater

Hi, everyone this is my first blog. Well my trip started 10 months ago in Thailand where I did my training to become a scuba dive instructor and travel the world. Well guess what it happened!!.. I did it and now I’m now in Turks and Caicos Island on a island called the Grand Turk. I came here because I found employment with a dive shop called Blue Water Divers. And to follow my quest of finding year round summer. The Grand Turks Island has about 3,500 people living here in a small community. On the island nothing is grown its [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 12th 2006 | 599 Views | [diary=58714]

the wall
coral
fish



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