We tend to show up for flights with little time to spare, so this may be a biased opinion, but I think that you should be fine. You would get to the airport about ten after noon, and what with it being low season and a weekday, the odds are that the airport wouldn't be that crowded. You could also c...

This is my favorite hike on St. John; the views are spectacular! For your first time, one tip is that after the first section of trail, you are led out onto a blue cobblestone beach. There is no longer any trail, per se, which can be confusing, but after 70 - 100 yards, look on your left, and the pl...

The Sahara dust has been degrading visibility for most of June, in part due to the fact that it has been such an exceptionally dry month. Rain clears out the dust, but the total rainfall reported by NOAA (from the airport in St. Thomas) is 36X below normal (0.06" month to date, vs. 2.18" a...

Josh: Glad to be of help. The line of sight element of the wireless services can be tricky, depending on where you live. My wife and I own Coconuts, a rental villa on Gifft Hill with line of sight to the WIMAX tower in Redhook. We get down six to eight weeks a year. We switched from Innovative DSL t...

Josh: Your three options are DSL through Innovative (the slowest option), with about 500kbps download and ~50 Kbps upload, Wireless WIMAX through Choice at a nominal 1 or 3 Mbps download and ~100 Kbps upload, and BroadbandVI, with either 1Mbbs or 3Mbps download, and 512Kbps or 1Mbps upload. Choice i...

My two cents on snorkel gear: it's better to own and bring down a set that you really like. The gear doesn't cost that much, and will last for many years. If you wear glasses for distance vision, spring for a prescription mask; they don't cost that much more. Fins are an amazingly efficient way to m...