From Red Hook, a ferry to Cruz Bay, St. John. Much of the island belongs to me (— and to all citizens of the USA — because it is Virgin Islands National Park. Cruz Bay seems like managed chaos. Taxis (trucks that seat multiple passengers, some call “safari taxis”) serve as transport for visitors. Some visitors rent cars — or …
So we arrive in the U.S. Virgin Islands via an eight-seater prop plane (flawlessly flown by a young woman) from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to St. Thomas. 3here we take many more taxi rides on the left side of the road, where my birding resumes, where we swim at Caribbean beaches, where we eat local food, where we spend a …
For most of the past 10 days, there was at least 100 degrees difference in the temperature where I was eating, sleeping and playing and the temperature in my backyard in Bismarck. The colors are different, too. White where I came from, green where I am now. That’s the reason Lillian and I came to the Caribbean in the dead …