If you need a general handyman on STX who also does great landscaping, painting, etc. at very fair prices, you can also try calling Dennis Houston at ...
Maybe the public high schools should make ROTC a required course. Nothing like a drill sargeant to thump some lessons on acceptable behavior and unde...
Country Day and Good Hope both have enrollment caps on each grade. First you will need to check with their office to find out if they have an opening...
STX had to wait a week after the major release before it started playing here. Some movies we actually get BEFORE their mainland release. Movies mos...
yes, Jane... but this is late July. It won't be long before the gray murky stuff sets in and is there for 8-10 months. I know. I lived there for 38...
If you have decent online connectivity, you can download a program such as SKYPE to use for telephone calls. It's great for outgoing calls... but a b...
Linda - that site is very cool. It appears Java is in much worse shape than we are when it comes to earthquakes!
I grew up in a small town near Vancouver, WA just across the bridge from Portland, OR and wouldn't go back there to live for anything in the world. I...
That's the only fast food I miss.
we don't have salmon in the USVI. You can get tuna, snapper, mahi, wahoo, conch and lobster.
You have to look at the history of the islands and understand that most of the "locals" are from families that are inter-related to varying degrees. ...
On STX you can sometimes get Mahi or Tuna or Wahoo from the fish market or the guys with ice chests alongside the road. Most of them are pretty good ...
Chris has a great reputation and the divemasters and Instructors who I've talked to who worked for him seemed to be pleased with the experience. I'm ...
I've never heard of it either. There are a lot of little hole in the wall places, though. And they usually have the best food! Matt - can you d...
David - great analysis. I remember that when I was growing up in Washington State, there were strong school districts and ones where nobody wanted to...
One route is to take a private flight from STX directly to Beef Island Airport on Tortola. Other options include flying from STX to STT via Cape ...
It can get a bit more complex if some of your income is earned on the mainland and some is earned on the island. If you also have income from elsewhe...
the one thing to be sure you understand about Google Earth is that it is not real time data. They update the various maps one area at a time and much...
GD - You can see maps of the islands at: The names on the map are the "estate" names. They are very useful when trying to figure out addresses a...
Brandon - You can build residential properties in nearly any zoning code section of the island. There is a Zoning Code and Building Code book availab...
Tan Tan tours has been taking tourists there in their jeeps, so the off-road "road" must be somewhat drivable. The rain lately might have caused some...
that doesn't make sense. It doesn't cost me anything when I am visiting the states to use my cingular phone. Why would it be impossible to keep it i...
With the Cingular nationwide plan that has a local island phone number, you can still call your friends and family in the states for nothing, because ...
When running a CMA for a seller to price a new listing, I pull up everything on the island with similar features and then list the differences between...
