The "Villa Mayorca" Story

It was an ordinary day. We just landed on St. Martin in the Caribbean. Went through customs, found our luggage and are headed out of the airport terminal to find our car rental guy. Every car rental company on the island has "runners" that stand at the airport with a sign with your name on it so you know who will be taking you to the rental agency. Some have really neat signs while others have pieces of cardboard they scratch names on. Some use the front and the back of the cardboard to conserve. We find our name and off we go to pick up our car. Nice car. Off to the realtor next to get the keys for Mayorca. Last year while on the island we visited a realtor to see if we could get a place to stay that was cheaper than the resort where we were staying. We loved the place, but the cost was getting too high. Naturally, plenty of places for us to stay. We eventually settled of a villa overlooking Orient Beach. As soon as we walked through the door to the villa, we knew this was where we wanted to stay. Can't believe it was cheaper, but is was only 2/3 the cost of the resort. Stephan is taking us to the villa above Orient Beach. As we enter the front door, we realize how neat it really is and why we chose the place. It's located at the end of a road so there will be no traffic at all. You enter the kitchen but the entire house is open to the pool which overlooks Orient Bay. How cool is that. Our own private pool. The owner constructed a wall between his house and his neighbors so the pool area is very private. The infinity dip pool is six feet deep so we (at least me) can stand at the edge and look over the view below. Only bad feature is they only have French Cable TV. I did fool around with the connection and managed to get "Dancing with the Stars," but only in black and white. And ...... no sound. So we put our Jimmy Buffet CD in and played that music while the dancing was going on. Beat was a little different, but still got to see the dancers. Our vacation when great for the first few days until we realized that most every day after cooling off in the pool, we would leave big black footprints on the tiles in the house. Then we figured it out. Right below us was a gravel road that led to the naturist section of Orient Beach and it seems like they are a popular destination for not only the sun worshippers, but the dune buggy, horse and jeep excursions. Depending which way the wind was blowing, it blew the dust from the road over our back deck area. And ...... it seemed to always be blowing our way. Oh well! Paradise has to have at least one drawback. Right? It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy. PS - Pixs from the top are: Entrance to Villa Mayroca, kitchen and living areas of villa, view of the pool and outside living area from the entrance of the villa, panoramic view overlooking Orient Beach and Bay and the culprits of the constant dust and dirt we encountered.