{"id":1179,"date":"2011-03-04T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2011-03-04T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:00:35","slug":"winter-vacation-2011-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"Winter Vacation 2011 – Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

We left Jost van Dyke at 4:00 pm on Feb. 8th and sailed for St. Kitts.\u00a0 This was going to be a rather long leg of the voyage.\u00a0 After we got underway the seas became rather rough and, for the first time in my adult life, I started feeling the onset of motion sickness.\u00a0 By dinner time I was feeling poor enough to elect to skip dinner and just hole up in our stateroom.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I spent a rather unpleasant night but by morning I was feeling good again and ready for breakfast and our day on St. Kitts.\u00a0 We had visited this island a number of years ago and at that time we climbed the dormant volcano (Mt. Liamuiga, formerly Mt. Misery)\u00a0 shown in this picture.\u00a0 On this visit we had a more leisurely activity planned.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>At 8:00 am we departed the ship and were bussed to the starting point for the St. Kitts Scenic Railway<\/a>.\u00a0 This narrow gauge railway originally was used to transport sugar cane from the plantations around the island.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The railroad runs around the Atlantic side of the island and passes through some beautiful scenery.\u00a0 Here is one of the black sand beaches visible along \"\"<\/a>the way.\u00a0 The tracks go through some rugged areas with ravines crossed by trestles.\u00a0 If you click on this picture you can see one of the track maintenance cars crossing the trestle.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The train featured complementary refreshments, both alcoholic and non- and even had an a-cappella\u00a0 choir singing both modern and traditional songs.\u00a0 The second half of the tour was via bus through some of the towns on the Caribbean side of the island.<\/p>\n

That evening there was a huge barbecue served poolside with music and dancing by the crew.\u00a0 Later the passengers joined in the dancing too and everyone had a wonderful time.\u00a0 We spent a long time that evening under the stars talking with our fellow passengers.\u00a0 It was a very memorable night, unfortunately I had chosen not to carry my camera so I have no photos to show.<\/p>\n

Our next destination was the French island of St. Barths where we were to spend two days.\u00a0\u00a0 We had a island taxi tour planned for the first day and a catamaran\/snorkel excursion for the next.<\/p>\n

More to come.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We left Jost van Dyke at 4:00 pm on Feb. 8th and sailed for St. Kitts.\u00a0 This was going to be a rather long leg of the voyage.\u00a0 After we got underway the seas became rather rough and, for the first time in my adult life, I started feeling the onset of motion sickness.\u00a0 By […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}