St. Thomas, USVI

Do you believe this?  When we ordered our packages/etc and asked Carl to send our mail, we thought maybe a week … 10 days at the most … before we’d receive them and be able to continue our adventure.  It is now Day 18 and we are still here … it is one setback after another! 

Since we didn’t go to bed until about 4am, we slept until 10am.  When we woke, it was a miserable day.  The winds were strong and gusty.  The sky was dark with thick, heavy clouds.  Rain and possibly thunderstorms, were inevitable.  We had hoped we’d be able to head out today but with one look outside, we both decided … better wait.

We did a few chores on the boat and then headed to town.  We wanted to see if Chris was at his bar and if he’d brought that newspaper article about his rescue at sea.  It’s something we’re really interested in.  Chris was there serving drinks to the masses of cruise ship passengers (never saw his bar this busy before) but unfortunately, he didn’t have his article with him.  Oh well, since we’re here … might as well sit and have a drink!

We had a good time.  We met up with Greg (referred to as ‘drunk guy’ in past email because I couldn’t remember his name).  Denver was there also.  He’s a really nice guy and makes custom jewelry from sea glass.  He gave me a pendant as a farewell gift … very nice of him.  We also met a couple that was staying over in St. John (I think they said).  They were having a drink waiting for the water taxi.   They were very interested in our story.  We are living a dream he would love to fulfill.  She on the other hand, had her doubts.  We gave them our info and they said they’d follow our blog.  He’s hoping our stories will convince her to live the dream.  Guess I’m gonna have to make these more interesting if they could be life altering events!  Oh … if we could only escape St. Thomas that just might be possible!