Day 16 Saturday April 30, 2005 St. Lucia
Well we didn’t get much sleep last night as that shack right across the bay from us, that sleepy little shack during the day, turned out to be a hoping reggae bar on Saturday night. The music was still blaring at 5 AM when we got up. Our 5:30 pickup didn’t happen as our driver missed the alarm clock for the first time in his life. We made it to the airport on time. A great guy, Martin, who was a pilot catching the flight to St. Vincent, told us great tales of when he was on the national Jamacian cycling team. I told him of my cycling days with the Ottawa Bicycle Club and cycling in southern France. We got to St. Lucia at the northern airport and hung out a bit deciding what to do. We took a taxibus for the 2 hour trip to the international airport at the southern end of the island (we’d flown over it on our way in) but first we stopped in at a delightful hotel where we treated the driver to breakfast.
By 11 AM we were at the airport for our 3 PM flight. The wicket opened at noon and soon we were free of our luggage. Delays in Atlanta Georgia and an mid-flight medical emergency necessitating a stop in Barbados made our flight out 4 hours late. I’ve sat in worse airports though. By midnight we were in Atlanta, off to a local hotel for three hours sleep and then up for our 8 AM flight to Montreal. Our windshield wipers had quit on our way up so we dodged rain bursts and fought sleepiness to get safely home to the +2C rainy weather that greeted us.
It sure was a great adventure though!
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