In Culebra
August 1st, 2007
We made it to Culebra on Saturday from Tortola, British Virgin Islands by boat in four hours. Our internet access is spotty and slow at best. I will update more in the near future including pictures and a full trip report.
Packing
July 21st, 2007
I am working on making some updates to the Palmetto Guesthouse website and packing the last of our belongings before we move up to Culebra. The story on traveling with pets will get posted on Monday.
British Virgin Islands to Culebra
July 18th, 2007
Some people have inquired as to how we are going to get everything to Culebra (to the Palmetto Guesthouse) without spending a fortune on a container for shipping? My answer -
Moving Overseas
July 3rd, 2007
Recently I got an email requesting some information about moving overseas so I thought I would do a quick post. Most importantly, before moving overseas I think there are four or five critical questions you should ask yourself:
Four Islands In Ten Years (part 3)
June 19th, 2007
British Virgin Islands
Part three of our Four Islands In Ten Years tour has us leaving American Samoa in August of 2003 when Terrie was offered a teaching job on Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands and I was offered a job with the BVI government doing more Geographic Information System development work. Having been to the BVI on our honeymoon in 1995, and due to the fact that all of our family is located on the east coast of the US, it was a pretty easy decision (although monetarily we faced a huge decrease in pay) to leave American Samoa. In August of 2003 we boarded a plane once again and made the move to Tortola, British Virgin Islands where we have been for the past four years.
Four Islands In Ten Years (part 2)
June 18th, 2007
American Samoa
In continuing with the Four Islands In Ten Years story part two begins when, after leaving Papua New Guinea and the Peace Corps, we returned to Massachusetts for a yearlong respite so that Mark could finish his Masters degree at Clark University. While we were in Massachusetts a great deal of our time was spent researching numerous countries and locations trying to figure out where on earth we would go next to escape the snow and cold. So, when a serendipitous email from the American Samoa government arrived very close to graduation time looking for a planner it only made sense to apply.
Four Islands In Ten Years (part 1)
June 17th, 2007
It just dawned on me that Terrie and I started our foray into island living ten years ago, which really doesn’t seem like that much time when you consider we are heading to our fourth island very soon. I had intended to include some basic geographical information about all of the locations we have called home for the past ten years in one post, but because of the space that the photos take up this anecdote will be broken into three or four parts starting with Papua New Guinea, then American Samoa, the BVI, and finally Culebra.