Villa Paradiso Nevis

... so festive and all the stores have a Caribbean flair, i really like it, looks so newer to me. There are different contrast of paint color in each store which made them so pretty and i saw some Kittitian dancers performing in the port's street with their costume and mask on. Again we got our Scenic St. Kitts tour from locals of Basseterre, not from the ship, and just charge us $20 per person. We are only 6 people in the tour van, our tour guide is Leroy a native of ...

... from the hordes that arrive on cruise ship days. We've found that most of the ports were cruise ships visit have all the same cheap touristy stuff and the locals hassle you at every corner to buy something or come on a tour somewhere. It's obviously how they make their living, but after a dozen or more ports like this you get quite tired of it. After saying that, we agreed to pay a friendly taxi driver to take us on ...

... economy and the largest resort on the island being closed because of hurricane damage we practically had the island to ourselves. However we did manage to run into another family from Chicago 3 times in 6 days. The food was amazing and the people even better.

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So, having been able to not remember a thing about Pennsylvania (at least nothing well enough to write about), and getting back to matt's place for a rest day, I headed off on the genuine trip.... all by myself :-o!! First stop, St. Kitts in the West Indies for the last 2 one dayers of the Australia/West Indies series. Unfortunately, Australia had already wrapped up the series 3-0, so both games ...

We had a great day on our 9th anniversary! We went on all day Catamaran trip with the entire TI crew. We 1st stopped off at coral reef where we wnet snorkling and saw many tropical fish, turtles and lots of colorful coral. We then stopped off at the Coco Beach Club on the island of Nevis and had lunch, rum punch and enjoyed time on wave runners. On the way back to St Kitts Island, it's customary to dance around the boat for good luck so we danced to raggae music around the ...

Landed in St Kitts arond 2PM on 4/30. Hotel is big, plantation style. We received lots of extra high five favors upon arrival including backback with sunscreeen, hat, visors, snacks, etc. I jumped into the Atlantic ocea for the 1st time as our hotel sits on the east side of island. Only 15 min walk to ...

St Kitts: This is one of the better islands to go shopping. They are new to tourism and therefore their prices were very competitive. St Thomas may have more to choose from, but if you find what you like on this island, this is where you'll get the best deal.

... back to the dingy dock, we hopped in, started the engine and then noticed that the gear shifter was missing. Shoot. Time for another adventure. We retied the dingy and walked back up the dock to where the throngs of taxi drivers were waiting to earn some easy money. The first one to us asked if we wanted a ride anywhere. We said possibly and asked him if he knew where we could find a mechanic for our Yamaha. He said, "Follow me." We walked to ...

... that I have been in the field, I have helped with the mapping. It's been really interesting, because I never really had any experience with a Total Station. It's a $15,000 machine that is able to shoot a laser 4000 meters with a maximum error of 5mm! Basically, the machine is set up on a tripod at a known latitude and longitude. Information is entered into a Pocket Computer (and later can be transferred into mapping software on a real ...