Re: Another inept Bush pal leaves FEMA

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Welp I must confess I haven't sailed those waters in many years...sounds
like it's changed a bit. Maybe I'll just stay on the boat. There used to be
a tiny island kinda near Megan's bay with a bar on it...just a bar and an
amazing beach.


"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Crash Gordon wrote:
| > I'll take a concrete tilt up on St. Thomas.
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| EEwwwwwwe! Although St Thomas isn't at the "bottom" of my list of least
| favorite places to go...... it is on the list. I was there about 5 6
| years ago, visiting friends who were there doing some volunteer work
| for the hospitals. We just stayed with them a few days before
| chartering a yacht out of Charlotte Amalie to sail the BVI.
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| One day, we'd been jogging on the beach. We went back to the villa (
| which, thankfully was half way up the side of a hill from the beach)
| and while sitting at the pool, overlooking the bay, just before sunset,
| we hear what sounds like an automatic weapon being fired. Sure enough,
| a few minutes later, down on the beach, where we were running, one car
| is chasing another car driving along the beach and they're actually
| SHOOTING at one another just like in the movies! Next day, not a word
| about it on the news or in the papers. We could only figure it had
| something to do with drugs.
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| Other  reasons I don't much care for St Thomas, is too many cruise
| ships and also the Rosti's. The Rosti's just don't do the tourist trade
| any good and they're still in the process of ruining St John too. If
| you're sailing the area, it's ok to visit, but to go to live there,
| you'd better pick a secure spot and that means "oddles" of money. The
| BVI (British Virgin Islands) are pretty good. There are some really
| nice quite areas, but it's all pretty isolated unless you live in or
| around Road Town on Tortola. More "poorer" areas than St Thomas though.
| Cane Garden Bay has been really growing in the last five years or so. I
| wouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very popular place. Some really
| beautiful white sand and coconut palm tree beaches. And they have a Rum
| factory there too!!!!!!! Take a look as some of the website of these
| places. You'll see what I mean. Yost Van Dyke is a nice but farily
| undeveloped island. If you had the money and wanted to get away from it
| all, that'd REALLY be the place. White Bay has just about the whitest
| sand I've ever seen.
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