Virgin Islands Trip: Day Nine

– St. John to Denton, Texas – We were up early once again on Sunday for our last run up St. John’s enormous hills. I won’t say I’m going to miss them, but it was an experience, I’ll say. They were the easiest they’d been, and yet still crazy in places. It was especially quiet…

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Virgin Islands Trip: Day Eight

– St. John – As has become our habit here on St. John, we began our morning at 5am with a good coat of bug spray and a run up some really terrible hills. We get a little better at conquering them every day. I think if we lived somewhere with hills like this, we…

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Virgin Islands Trip: Day Seven

– St. John – Today is day seven, and our second full day on St. John. The trip is only nine days long, so we really are winding things down. It’s Friday, so this is probably our last truly peaceful day, since more people will likely be out and about tomorrow, since it the weekend….

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Virgin Islands Trip: Day Six

– St. John – Today is our first full day on St. John and it’s been quite a day. The beaches here are even prettier than Magen’s Bay in St. Thomas. I should know. We’ve already visited two to swim. Nice beaches are much easier to find here, too. Half the beaches over on St….

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Virgin Islands Trip: Day Five

– St. Thomas to St. John – Today was both an interesting day and a quiet day. We took our ferry across to St. John, which was neat, but we also spent a lot of time waiting around, since traveling around makes it a little harder to do cool things during the day. No big…

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Virgin Islands Trip: Day Four

– St. Thomas – Today was an interesting day. We started our morning with our usual run, though we left even earlier than yesterday. It was just cloudy enough this morning to block the sun until we finished with our run. The clouds were disappearing and the sun was climbing over the hill just as…

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Virgin Islands Trip: Day Three

– St. Thomas – Two cruise ships were here today. Given how quiet the weekend was, we had no idea that it could get this crazy. Those cruise ships dump an extra several thousand people onto this tiny island, and it’s just wild. People everywhere. And they have slots for as many as 5 cruise…

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Virgin Islands Trip: Day Two

– St. Thomas – It was a quiet day two. We were up at 6am to go for our run, which was just along the promenade next to the water that goes along the front of Charlotte Amalie, which is the town where we are staying. I don’t think I mentioned that yesterday. Despite its…

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Virgin Islands Trip: Day One

– St. Thomas – Hey! It’s 8:09pm here as I start to write this blog post, and I’ve been up since 2am, so please forgive me any egregious spelling or grammar mistakes. I am not sure that I’m all here anymore. I mentioned it after our Banff and Jasper trip, but now the time has…

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