http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , US Virgin Islands en-us Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:19:50 +0000 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:19:50 +0000 We spent a week in gorgeous St. John. This was our first trip to the Caribbean. The water has indescribable beauty and warmth. It is spectacular in so many ways. We were blessed with great opportunity to photograph a friends wedding and stay with all the family for our week stay on the island. We lived a life style that most dream of. Our accommodations were sprawling gigantic villas with sweepi http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-John/blog-444528.html St. ThomasWestern CarribeanOne of the stops on our first family cruiseFeb 1997 http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Thomas/blog-440559.html Our plan for this cruising season was to sail up the Caribbean chain stopping along the way to visit new islands and revisit some of our favorites from last year. Our goal was to reach the Virgin Islands by April and spend a month there before turning back and heading south again our insurance for the boat dictates that we must be out of the hurricane belt by the first of July. So once we le http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Thomas/blog-434339.html Hi thereI have lots of stories about what happens on cruise ships.For over 12 years I worked on 17 different ships and life is strangerthan fiction on cruise ships.Check out my stories at http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Thomas/blog-429471.html After a long trip from San Diego to St. Thoms USVI we were welcomed off the plane with refreshing choice of rum shots. We love the Island life. We stayed in quaint hotel overlooking the town of Charlotte Amalie. We had some time the next day to see a little of St. Thomas before we headed over to meet our friends in St. John for the week. We spent most of our day sitting in AC drinking pina colada http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Thomas/blog-425145.html I think Apple has been hiding the fact that they are creating a new Mac. They took away a whole line of MacBooks replaced it with the MacBook pro but there should be some form of back up.It's very unlikely but not impossible.There already is a touch scree sort of mac it is called a ModBook it isn't made by apple but it uses apple OSaxiotron.comindex.phpidmodhellipltpgtlta hrefhttpw http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/blog-423724.html I confess that I have not been making the most of my port time during the last couple weeks. Last week when we were in port I either took the day to just catch up on sleep and treat myself to such luxuries as lying in bed reading or I just went out to cafes and enjoyed some good food along with fast internet. So this cruise Irsquom more determined to actually get out and do something fun.Las http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Thomas/blog-393278.html How We RollhellipIrsquom hiphellipIrsquom coolhellipIrsquom down with the lingo HASome of you will remember that Kel and I returned from our grand viaje back at the end of 2007. We came back to the United States as the same people but had also changed at the same time. We were a walking contradiction seemingly the same but somehow fundamentally different. But we were really http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Croix/blog-375675.html Well Irsquove been on the Carnival Triumph now for about a week and a half. It has been so hecticItrsquos always rather crazy signing onto a ship. When you donrsquot have a handover from the director yoursquore replacing it means extra time getting things organized. Therersquos been lots of comings and goings of directors on this ship over the last couple months so therersquos som http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Thomas/blog-374929.html We anchored near MY Rising Sun in St. Thomas Harbor. Rising Sun was originally planned to be 120 meters but the length was changed to 138 meters because Larry Ellison of Oracle wanted his boat to be longer than Paul Allen's of Microsoft. Rising Sun has a basketball court on her.I wanted to ask Larry Ellison over to our boat for fresh tuna we had just caught but the admiral would not allow it. M http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Thomas/blog-371671.html We sailed from Puerto Rico to St. Croix with our good friends Tim and Sandy. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Croix/blog-371592.html My wife and I took a trip to the Virgin Islands for the Winter Holidays in 2008. It was filled with a paradise of mixed drinks perfect sunshine blissful activities and rest. Our observations of a confused clash of cultural forces gave us an unexpected perspective of the various lifestyles on the islands. Our flight landed in St. Thomas on Christmas Day. The Cyril E. King Airport STT i http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/blog-368699.html This places is the shopping mecca for the Caribbean. I have never seen so many jewelry stores in such a small place. Out of all of the towns that we have visited I think that this is up there at the top. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Thomas/blog-364119.html Twelve Miles north of Golden Gate Bridge on the coastline of California lies a thick forest full of redwood trees on a hilly terrain. This is MUIR WOODS named after the famous tree lover and conservationist Mr. John Muir.This is the forest of gigantic Sequoia trees the age of which ranges from several centuries to many thousand years. They are nearly 350 to 400 feet tall and the diameter o http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/blog-352920.html Our day in St. Thomas was a nice one. Having friends who have already been there I was told I had to do the sky ride to the top of the mountain and enjoy a ldquobushwakerrdquo with the view. We found out that there were reduced rates for the crew so we were off and away. The ride up the mountain didnrsquot take long but it was a gorgeous view. Looking down on our little ship she really di http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Thomas/blog-350079.html Well I guess it's been about a month now since I've written time goes by fast and there have definitely been some highs and lows to summarizeIt's been mostly working here in the field and taking care of the animals for me cooking of course going to the beach when possible etc. We knew that the rabbits were pregnant from when we put them altogether in the battery room for the hurricane so http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Croix/blog-347079.html What a gorgeous day here in St. ThomasI decided today I'd go to Magen's Bay. National Geographic rated it in the Top 10 beaches in the world. All my times in St. Thomas yet I hadn't been. I figured it was about time.So today I took a taxi on my own. Except also in the taxi was Brendan a Glory dancer and his friend from home Kale. We chatted a bit in the taxi. And by the time we reached http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Thomas/blog-339157.html St Thomas http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Thomas/blog-338618.html Hello everyone I guess it's been awhile. I just celebrated Halloween festivities here on island last weekend and friday night which included much dancing to the celebrated music of Kurt Shindler a favorite local artist who just plays some good island dance jams. I dressed up as a Taino indigenous people from island woman complete with plant leaves coming out of my hair although I was also mis http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Croix/blog-337822.html Hello everyone Well this last week we had a hurricane come through here Omar. We thought were just going to have a tropical storm but on Monday we saw it developing on the radar saying it was going to be a category 1. Tuesday it developed more than expected and was supposed to be a category 3 straight over St. Croix for Wednesday night. So all Tuesday and Wednesday we prepared everything to ta http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/US-Virgin-Islands/Saint-Croix/blog-336139.html