Andrew & Cristina

Look who made it onto Travel & Leisure’s list of The World’s Scariest Runways. It’s none other than Saba’s own little runway. The picture really doesn’t do it justice. You have to see it to believe just how short it is. Who’s up for a visit?

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Yesterday’s Trunk or Treat event was pretty nice, if a bit unusual. A handful of SOS members and their medical student significant others handed out candy from decorated car trunks yesterday afternoon. It was amazing how many local kids showed up all dressed up for Halloween. Some of the costumes were really good and I […]

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Today I helped with yet another bake sale at the school. This must have been the third one this semester and it may very well be my last one for a while. I love chatting with the ladies there and it’s fun to see so many new faces during the several hours I’m there, but […]

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Our water pump went belly up again yesterday evening. It happened for the first time last month and I’m sure I don’t need to tell you how inconvenient it is. It starts with warm cloudy water on the cold setting. Then it progresses to a sputtering stream of water, which finally leads to no water […]

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Our Halloween costumes got here this afternoon and they’re more or less what we expected. I was afraid we didn’t order them early enough but they arrived here on the island with plenty of time to spare. At first I thought we weren’t going to bother to dress up as anything this year, but then […]

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It’s been a while since my last post. We’re now almost half way through second semester and looking forward to visiting both Ecuador and the US this winter. It should be interesting because we’re cramming all this travelling into two weeks. I thought I’d never get sick and tired of flying but this might be […]

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As I’ve mentioned before, the boats full of fresh groceries arrive on Saba on Tuesday evenings and I do my shopping for the week the following morning. As I walked into the store in the morning, I was greeted by the store owner and she whispered to me that the boats were late that day […]

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