ST. JOHN (USVI) VACATION 2000
Deanie, Zachary, and I took the Christmas/New Year's week off to hang out in St. John and relax (well, as
much as a 13 year old can relax). We flew down on December 23rd,
and came back on December 31st. Since this is a busy period for the airlines, we
couldn't use our frequent flyer miles for coach seats - they (United Airlines) would only let us buy
first class seats. So, they wiped out my FF miles, but we flew down in style.
You get to St. John by
flying into Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas, and then either taking a 45 minute ferry ride
to Cruz Bay on St. John,
or else you take a taxi to Red Hook and then take a 20 minute ferry to St. John. Six of one, half dozen
of the other by the time you get through with the time and money.
The National Park Service has a web page for St. John, since 2/3 of the island is National
Park (donated by the Rockefellers - dang, it's handy to be filthy rich).
I don't have any pictures of it, but I took a 10 mile out and back hike one day.
A path leads from Cinnamon Bay south (the Cinnamon Bay Trail) up the hill to the main road
running down the center of the island. That's about a mile long. Then there's
a mile long walk down the main road to the Reef Bay Trail, which runs 3.2 miles downhill
to some petroglyphs on a short side trail and Reef Bay on the south shore of the
island. Deanie and Zach met me on the main road and accompanied me down to Reef
Bay. They then took a boat back to Cruz Bay with some people on a hike with a
National Park Ranger, and I walked back the way I came.
The small picture links to a page with a larger version of the picture (and sometimes
more than one) with a longer description of our activities and/or sightseeing.
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