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Saturday, November 2, 2013
Friday, November 1, 2013
Arrival in St Thomas
Arrived to St. Thomas, USVI safely. Three plus months in the planing, while working and catching up from time off work, we were off! October 30th was a scramble to the end, with a 40 minute nap before setting out. Having only minimal sleep in 72 hours was daunting, but we prevailed...Luke (Tracy's son) was our transport to MSP airport. Not only was he on time,,. Bailey (Luke's Girlfriend), and he had Lei's for our sendoff! Awesome work in my opinion.
We set off at 0528, on time to Atlanta. After a short lay-over, we were on our way to STT. Neither of us truly slept. Mostly a combo of exhausted and excited. Balancing each others mood and outlook was not difficult at all!
Arrived on time at Cyril King Airport. Landing was perfect, except by appearances, we would land in water. Touchdown was a 5 count after seeing the tarmac. Yikes!
Due to NOT having our rental vehicle ready, we had an awesome surprise of a local (Our condo manager, Leah), greeting us with a sign, with our names! It felt kind of 'rock-star' in my opinion. She loaned is a kick-ass Jeep Sahara '14 for the days until we got our rental!
Leah gave us much in the way of being local and not a tourist. Great way to start out! Did I mention we were tired yet? I took driver and Tracy was definitively the co-pilot extraordinaire. We now had to get from Charlotte Amalie to Red Hook. Unbeknownst to me, ALL roads are up OR down. no in-between. I knew I would be driving on the Left, but sitting on the Left made it a little daunting. Tracy was so awesome! We laughed hard at the mistakes and noted future "albatrosses" en-route.
We stopped at a tourist grocery to get what we thought we needed, and were pretty much molested on cost. It was what it was. Arrived at our apartment in Sapphire Village intact and ready to haul our stuff in...let's say island clean is not Tracy or my clean. We settled in and I literally took the first "nap" I've taken in over a decade. It lasted 3 hours. Tracy 'nested'. Upon waking I was wired and hungry. Went to town for immediate type food. Parked by Taco Hell, literally. It smelled great, but decided on a Calzone from the pizza place. I assumed it would feed me, but had no clue it was a pizza folded in half! It was delicious. Tracy finally got hungry after seeing the cheese! Part of the uniqueness was indeed the cheese. Unsure if it may have been goat, but the texture was heavenly.
Then there was sleep.
We set off at 0528, on time to Atlanta. After a short lay-over, we were on our way to STT. Neither of us truly slept. Mostly a combo of exhausted and excited. Balancing each others mood and outlook was not difficult at all!
Arrived on time at Cyril King Airport. Landing was perfect, except by appearances, we would land in water. Touchdown was a 5 count after seeing the tarmac. Yikes!
Due to NOT having our rental vehicle ready, we had an awesome surprise of a local (Our condo manager, Leah), greeting us with a sign, with our names! It felt kind of 'rock-star' in my opinion. She loaned is a kick-ass Jeep Sahara '14 for the days until we got our rental!
Leah gave us much in the way of being local and not a tourist. Great way to start out! Did I mention we were tired yet? I took driver and Tracy was definitively the co-pilot extraordinaire. We now had to get from Charlotte Amalie to Red Hook. Unbeknownst to me, ALL roads are up OR down. no in-between. I knew I would be driving on the Left, but sitting on the Left made it a little daunting. Tracy was so awesome! We laughed hard at the mistakes and noted future "albatrosses" en-route.
We stopped at a tourist grocery to get what we thought we needed, and were pretty much molested on cost. It was what it was. Arrived at our apartment in Sapphire Village intact and ready to haul our stuff in...let's say island clean is not Tracy or my clean. We settled in and I literally took the first "nap" I've taken in over a decade. It lasted 3 hours. Tracy 'nested'. Upon waking I was wired and hungry. Went to town for immediate type food. Parked by Taco Hell, literally. It smelled great, but decided on a Calzone from the pizza place. I assumed it would feed me, but had no clue it was a pizza folded in half! It was delicious. Tracy finally got hungry after seeing the cheese! Part of the uniqueness was indeed the cheese. Unsure if it may have been goat, but the texture was heavenly.
Then there was sleep.
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