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Traveling back home
... br> We had lunch with some nice people flying back to Norway. They, too, had spent 2 weeks sailing with friends. They were so interesting, as they have sailed in many parts of the world. Inspiring stories for future trips.
Now, the trip is over, and its back to the working world tomorrow. ...
Philipsburg, St. Maarten, Netherlands, Antilles
One of the things I like most about cruising is waking up each morning in a new port. I’m excited to see what the place looks like from onboard the ship and to imagine what adventures will await us once we disembark. St. Maarten was mountainous and lush, with colorful buildings that dot the landscape like Skittles. I had a feeling that the other islands would be similar yet hold their own unique appeal. (double click to watch the video)
The island of St. Maarten, only ...
Arabella British Virgin Islands Cruise
... chocolate chip cookies.
I relaxed onboard for the afternoon and took the 3pm tender back to shore and awaited my 4pm windsurfing lesson. Apparently I had quite the audience looking on from the boat! Anyway, they got a board for me and gave me a brief on shore demo on how to control the board. Then we got in a whaler and dragged the board out to an area with good wind. I got on the board and the instructor stayed in the boat and followed ...
Smallest NP ever
... parks. Well, Mt Healthy wins the award as the smallest national park I have ever been too – probably the smallest in the world. For anyone who has been to Fordy towers the park was about the size of my back garden. No I she-diddly-it you not!
After ice creams we dropped Scott off and me and Kim readied ourselves for an evening of theatre. Well it was the local ...
Don’t be a stick-in-the-mud
... s delay I finally got on the plane to the BVI – only 13 hours later than planned arriving at Beef Island at 11.30 around 26 hours after I left Milwaukee.
First stop was Kim’s new house – well new to me – which is right next to Serendipity house where I had stayed during my first happy visit to the BVI. We then had to pick up Kim’s car from the garage which necessitated me driving a manual left-hand ...


