I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

A mature traveler episode 787. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about

tide pools and Columbus beaches and turtles rum and mamawana as we go to the U.S. Virgin Islands and the island of St. Croix.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Kristinson. Let's talk about

St. Croix. I'd like to welcome to the show Cat Roy and Phil Schons from the Staying Afloat blog.com who've come to talk to us about

the island of St.Croy. Cat and Phil welcome to the show. Hi Chris, thanks for having us.

Thanks a lot, Chris.

And what's your connection with St. Croix?

So I've always been interested in the Virgin Islands.

I've traveled previously with friends to St. John

Island. Bill's actually never been and he really enjoys the Caribbean and

places to go snorkeling. Ultimately we actually decided on St. Croix and we were

motivated as most budget travelers are through some of our points that we had at the time which was Spirit Airlines and one of the sort of connecting flights that were available in our point range was from Myrtle Beach was our home base at the time in St. Croix.

So that was ultimately how we ended up going there.

But also we were really interested in the fact

that if you do any research on the island itself,

there was a lack of, it almost seemed like information on St.

Croy. Yes, certainly St. John's and St Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands get more

tourism than St. Croix does.

Exactly.

I have not been there.

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