my computer, is glad that Carol and I rescued him and can now stay inside rather that suffer through the deep freeze we are exper- iencing. But the cold doesn't prevent Carol and me from starting to prepare for our next stay in our second home, the island of Sint Maarten/St. Martin. Corresponding with Magali our real estate agent, watching the Travel Channel and Home & Garden Channel, reading material on what we may want to experience and checking out the beaches we want to explore occupy our cold evenings. When we arrived on the island last year, Magali's assistant, Stephan, greeted us with, "Welcome home!" If you don't know by now, the island of St. Martin is half Dutch and half French, thus the two names given a few sentences ago. After our last visit in May 2013, we talked with Magali about 2014 and picked out our dates for our visit this year. Placed a third down on Villa Jeluca and am now waiting for the price of airfare to drop so I can buy airline tickets. Seems that may not happen, since I have been checking for eight months and they are still about the same price. That was until this morning when I checked and found they have now risen $100 from yesterday. Wow! Gonna make it tough to afford the airline tickets, but certainly won't keep us home. We figure we have fewer years to travel, since we are getting older more quickly than we anticipated, and will not miss out on an opportunity to get our dose of Vitamin D while relaxing on a gorgeous beach in the Caribbean.
For those who have had the opportunity to travel to the Caribbean, especially St. Martin, you know the benefits of experiencing a great vacation. The warm water, beaches for lounging and walking, meals that you don't have to prepare and the joy of driving where you don't have to stop all the time for traffic lights. Why did I put that last note in the last sentence? Well, the French side of St. Martin has zero traffic lights while the Dutch side has only one traffic light.
The one and only stop light in Sint Maarten. |
PS - I wrote this story a couple of days ago and since writing the story was able to buy my airfare. Will be flying with Delta Airlines which is new for Carol and me. Flying from Baltimore, MD to JFK in New York and then a direct flight to SXM or Sint Maarten. Price is the best I have found since I started looking and even with a modest additional amount added from my travel agent, the price is still great. Now all I have to do is arrange for the parking in Baltimore. Additionally, I am listening to the sleet and frozen rain strike the window next to me as we progress through the second of the three winter storms that we are supposed to get this WEEK!
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