Category: USVI

Actually counting the days via these posts has helped keep time in some sort of perspective. For the most part, though, that perspective is “Woah, has it really been 13 days?!” coupled with “Woah, has it only been 13 days?!” You can see the issue here. Continue reading “Taco Tuesday”

One of the things that I’ve been impressed by is just how quickly things here have changed in our camp. We’ve only been back a handful of days, and already we’ve taken the area from a soggy field, to a soggy tent city. Today in particular we laid down some stone to create paths between tents. Such a seemingly little thing has seemed to change the entire field more than erecting a whole mess of tents on it. Continue reading “Home Is Where I Find Myself”

Go anywhere in the world and you’ll no doubt find that a common opinion of Americans is “Why do they all expect the rest of the world to be like America?” This is a known quantity. Continue reading “By Whose Standards?”

0200 wake up. Wheels up at 0500.

We have officially returned to St. Thomas. Continue reading “I Came Though and I Shall Return”

Today we officially got the word that we are leaving tomorrow morning. Very early tomorrow morning. That will be good though, it will give us plenty of time to get things set up. Continue reading “Soon”

I haven’t shaved since Monday. Haven’t been in uniform, haven’t had to. I probably will tomorrow though. Hell, we may even be leaving tomorrow so I may have to. Continue reading “We Made a Racquet”

If I had to choose a single food item that Americans take for granted without even realizing it that would probably be ice. I know I’m always thinking about it at parties and such. But what do you do if you run out of ice? Why just run down to the corner store and get another bag or three. What do you do if you’re on an island that just got rocked by a massive hurricane? Continue reading “Fast and the Furious: Singapore Smash”

Woke up late today. Not a whole lot to do. We had a quick meeting where we were pretty much told that we could do whatever today. Milled around in the gym a bit, went over to the BX to pick up a few odds and ends then went to lunch at the DFAC. Got a chance to video chat with Flower and The Peanut for a while. Will have to take plenty of advantage of that while I still have reliable internet access. Continue reading “Bienvenidos a…Homestead”

Today we were woken up at 5:30 am and told we had to pack now, we were leaving at 7:30. This was quickly revised to 1730, which is very different. We got up, had breakfast and then tore down the remaining tents and packed them up. Anyone who has ever been camping knows that once you take the tent out of the box you can never get it back in the same way. These tents are no different. Continue reading “Evac”

Today I woke up at 6:30, checked my phone, saw the time, wondered why no one had woken me up and then realized that no one else was awake either. Slow start. We weren’t really planning on doing anything. We didn’t even have to be in uniform. Continue reading “Evac…? Part 2”