Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, USVI

[rutt]

I didn't exactly want to be stuck there on my way home on Sunday evening, but air travel being what it is, there I was. So I took my family to a resturant on a hill overlooking this cruise ship destination city and got this shot.

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/13808937-L.jpg

[pathfinder]

I didn't exactly want to be stuck there on my way home on Sunday evening, but air travel being what it is, there I was. So I took my family to a resturant on a hill overlooking this cruise ship destination city and got this shot.

http://rutt.smugmug.com/photos/13808937-S.jpg


Now think this through, John :D :D :D You're stuck in the Virgin Islands and most of us are here in the States in the cold rain and snow and you're the one who is unhappy ??? What's wrong with this picture??? Nice scenic of Charlotte Harbor.

I think there may still be rooms in the Yosemite shoot out in May if you are interested. PM Andy quick if you are. :thumb You really ought to join us - Read about it in the News & Events section.

[rutt]

Now think this through, John :D :D :D You're stuck in the Virgin Islands and most of us are here in the States in the cold rain and snow and you're the one who is unhappy ??? What's wrong with this picture??? Nice scenic of Charlotte Harbor.
Well, it would have been OK except that:

There were 11 of us: my immediate family, my wife's father and mother, her brother and sister-in-law, and 2 teenage cousins.
We had no place to stay. All the hotel rooms in town were taken.
Brother-in-law had crucial meeting next am in Boston.
Father-in-law seeemed to be dying of what turned out to be bronchitis but at the time seemed like it might be lung cancer or TB.
I spent the morning mountain biking what I believe to be the world's steepest paved roads and wanted to be asleep very badly.
I finally did get home at 4am instead of 7pm.
Complain, complain, complain
All in all, I don't think you can have adventures without mishaps, but I reserve my right to complain.

[wxwax]

Nice way to take advantage of an opportunity. :nod From where were you travelling?

[rutt]

Nice way to take advantage of an opportunity. :nod From where were you travelling?
St John -> Boston.

St. John is an amazing place. More than 1/2 US National Park. Can't say the same of St. Thomas.

[Mitchell]

Was just in Charlotte Amalie two weeks ago for a quick overnight stop. Took these from my balcony.


mitch

[Mitchell]

another one

[ginger_55]

another one
Oh, Good goddess of weather and time and place.........

It has been unseasonably warm here in the southeast, so I am not going to complain too much. But all those photos of the same exotic beautiful warm place! Too, too much!

ginger

[pathfinder]

Well, it would have been OK except that:

There were 11 of us: my immediate family, my wife's father and mother, her brother and sister-in-law, and 2 teenage cousins.
We had no place to stay. All the hotel rooms in town were taken.
Brother-in-law had crucial meeting next am in Boston.
Father-in-law seeemed to be dying of what turned out to be bronchitis but at the time seemed like it might be lung cancer or TB.
I spent the morning mountain biking what I believe to be the world's steepest paved roads and wanted to be asleep very badly.
I finally did get home at 4am instead of 7pm.
Complain, complain, complain
All in all, I don't think you can have adventures without mishaps, but I reserve my right to complain.


Nothing worse than unexpected delays when you are travelling, I agree.

Ask me how my wife and I ended up spending a week in a monastery in seperate rooms on Beaver Island some time. No room at the the Inn and No Way off the Island, either.

Feel free to complain, I was just jerkin' your chain. :D

[wxwax]

Ask me how my wife and I ended up spending a week in a monastery in seperate rooms on Beaver Island
Oh, the irony! :rofl

[pathfinder]

Oh, the irony! :rofl


It is a funny story Sid. Beaver Island is the largest island in the northern end of Lake Michigan. It is about 20 miles long and maybe 30 miles off shore.

My wife made reservations 6 month in advance with a B&B on the island. We got confirmation in hand, and in June drove to Charlevoix where the car ferry is harbored that runs to the island. We debarked the car ferry on the island and drove to the B&B and checked in and spent the night.

The next day the owner's of the B&B explained to us that the ownership of the B&B had changed in March and then asked us where we were spending the next night. Apparently the reservations were not transferred correctly with changing ownership! My wife said we are booked here all week. The B&B owners said "We only show a reservation for one night, NOT 5 nights!" This conversation occurred in the afternoon after the ferry had already returned to the mainland. Indeed, to book passage on the ferry for a vehicle (we had driven up with bicycles in our pickup truck) we could not depart until 4 days later, BUT there was not another commercial room to be found on the island AT ALL. Summer Season in Michigan you understand! If you don't have reservations in advance along the Michigan seashore they'll laugh at you and send you to the hardware store to purchase a tent. And they are SERIOUS too!!
SO we ended up as compassionate tourists at the Christian Brothers Monastery for 4 nights in seperate bedrooms. Sat on the veranda each afternoon and drank wine with the vacationing priests. It was an interesting experience and ended up being a funny story. We met some lovely priests and heard the funniest Catholic jokes I ever heard. But I can't tell any of them here.

So that is how we ended up in seperate rooms in a monastery on Beaver Island.

[wxwax]

Great story, PF! I hope absence made the heart grow fonder.