{"id":35,"date":"2004-06-01T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T17:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2004-06-01T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2004-06-01T17:36:35","slug":"sigh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Sigh&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m back at work.  Ick.<\/p>\n<p>Had a great time in the sunshine.  Missed most of the storms around here from what I hear.<\/p>\n<p>My tips for the USVI:<br \/>\n(Some of these I did, others I wish I would have)<br \/>\n&#8211; If possible, make back ups of digital pictures or take a second memory card<br \/>\n&#8211; Take more t-shirts than you think you&#8217;ll need, and less shoes\/socks<br \/>\n&#8211; Don&#8217;t worry about renting a car on St Thomas.  The taxis can get you where you need to go for about the same price if not less.  And you don&#8217;t have to worry about driving. St Johns is probably a different story.<br \/>\n&#8211; Buy your own, good quality snorkel gear to take with you<br \/>\n&#8211; Do a day sail.  I <em>highly<\/em> recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhorizonsvi.com\/\">New Horizons<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Unless you really want someone else to do everything for you, pass on the Tropic Tours tours.  They&#8217;re educational, but you&#8217;ll probably have a better time doing it on your own at your own pace.<br \/>\n&#8211; Visit St Johns<br \/>\n&#8211; Do another day sail.<br \/>\n&#8211; Make sure your sandles are comfortable to wear and walk in.  You&#8217;ll be wearing those or barefoot most of the time.<br \/>\n&#8211; If you&#8217;re staying there and planning on shopping &#8216;downtown&#8217; &#8211; make sure there&#8217;s a cruise ship in town.  A lot of the stores don&#8217;t bother to open if there aren&#8217;t.<br \/>\n&#8211; Hit the beaches early in the morning when possible.  Once the cruise ships come in, the beaches get crowded<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I can think of for now&#8230; I hope to make it back there one of these days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m back at work. Ick. Had a great time in the sunshine. Missed most of the storms around here from what I hear. My tips for the USVI: (Some of these I did, others I wish I would have) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=35\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}