I’m Back
We got back from the Bahamas last night. I may have more later, but here are a few quick observations:
- Yes, they really do talk like that. No, they’re not kidding.
- Don’t drink the water.
- Don’t even think of drinking the coffee.
- Everyone drives on the wrong side of the road, but the driver does not sit on the wrong side of the car.
- The beaches are lovely for small children, but will likely disappoint avid surfers.
- Cable Beach is on the north coast, meaning that the sun and the water are in opposite directions. This is good if you consider controlled skin damage, a.k.a. tanning, to be a bug. It’s bad if you consider it a feature.
- Atlantis, where we visited for an hour or so, is a class act.
- The Radisson, where we stayed, is not.
- Stuart Cove’s is awesome. Worth booking in advance if you want to do the fancy stuff.
- Bahamian Christmas carols are wrong. They’re just wrong.
Thanks to Cardinal Martini for holding down the fort. Be sure to visit his blog soon.
UPDATE: If you’re jealous, don’t be. You too can spend a couple of days there, for considerably less than it cost us. The only down side to this offer is that instead of getting to fly with a near-bankrupt dinosaur airline that squeezes you into a tin can like a sardine, requires you to pay for the most basic snacks, and bombards you with obnoxious propaganda about the evils of free enterprise, you’ll have to settle for a newer, profitable airline with more legroom, free snacks and your own mini-TV.
January 1st, 2006 at 1:15 am
I’m envious. Especially given how crappy the weather is here right now…
January 1st, 2006 at 2:54 am
This reminded me (yet again tonight/this morning) that last year at this time, I was actually in West Palm Beach, which was a refreshing escape from the dreariness and depression that is oftentimes associated with this time of the year - for many of us, at least (despite what we’re supposed to be feeling).
I hope that you and whoever you were with had a good time, and a Merry Christmas. Happy New Year!
January 2nd, 2006 at 6:01 am
Welcome back, kotter.
January 2nd, 2006 at 9:16 am
More on Atlantis, please.
Danke.
January 5th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
You too can spend a couple of days there, for considerably less than it cost us.
Well, if you happen to live near one of the whopping fourteen airports they serve, you could. ;) The closest to me is Richmond, VA, and it’s a paltry 833 miles away!
The only discount airline that serves Memphis is AirTran, and I think you can name at least a few reasons why I shouldn’t try that…
(By the way, did you know that Google Maps will let you enter in two airport codes, e.g. “MEM to RIC” and it will give you the driving directions and distance from one to the other? Neither did I, until I just tried it…)
January 5th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Sorry to disappoint, but JetBlue doesn’t service Richmond just yet, so unless you’re willing to postpone your trip until early spring, you’ll have to drive a full 865 miles to Washington/Dulles, instead. I know, that extra 32 mile stretch could be a deal-breaker.
However, every cloud does have a silver lining. Just as your drive to the airport is slightly worse than you thought, Mapquest is slightly better. Not only does it allow you to draw maps using three-letter airport codes, it also allows you to do so by the airports’ common names. While looking up the distance for Dulles I was too lazy/ignorant/stupid/whatever to look up the abbreviation (IAD), but a query for “MEM” to “Washington Dulles” worked just as well.
January 5th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
In any case, the Bahamas aren’t far enough into the tropics for my liking. Hopefully, however, I’ll be in Puerto Rico come March.
As to Mapquest, I find that it gives better directions, but its maps aren’t nearly as good. When Mapquest zooms out to regional mode, as in our example, it doesn’t even show major highways on the map. And I can’t easily do the cool zoom in/out and drag around things (more useful than you’d think) on Mapquest.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 pm
you stupid american assholes believe you are the shit but I have news for you…you people are not worth shit!!!! All you want to do is criticize other people’s dialect and way of life! Well at least we ain’t out there killing one another just for the hell of it like some people do. You have the nerve to talk about our beach when you probably can’t swim unless it is in a pool cause your water is brown as shit and I would never be caught dead putting my toenail in it. You people always want something for nothing with your cheap asses!! one more thing…our little airplanes have never ever crashed!!think about that! Not cause something is different makes it worse than the norm.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Why isn’t the post except Comment #8 showing up on my browser?
April 4th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Thanks for not saying it but I will. “Read the date, idiot.” (Not that I don’t have an excuse for assuming this was a new post given the title and Xrlq’s time off in recent days.)