“I love it when a plan comes together” -Col. John "Hannibal" Smith from The A-Team.

Yesterday I booked my airfare….have had our timeshare room for months.
Since then have booked our room in Anguilla at the Allamanda

http://www.wiol.com/anguilla/Allamanda/default.html?ref=google&gclid=CKGxn7GVgo8CFQ6CPAodeXKM2A

This is a very small hotel on beautiful Upper Shoal bay. The hotel has 3 floors and 20 rooms. Our room will be on the second floor. We are very excited. This stretch of beach is our favorite place to hang out and just lime the day away. We are only staying 3 days on island then going back to SXM for a week. This will be an easy 3 days for us...we will beach it and maybe take one day to dive.

Have also booked our rental car on SXM we will once again go with our friends at AAA. triplea@domaccess.com The car is a fair price and Alain has been so good for us to work with in the past. There are several good rental car companies on island, AAA was recommended to us by some friends and we are sticking with them. Is $150 a week for a Toyota Corolla + insurance and taxes….fair price for a decent car. AAA uses license plates from the French side of the island. The rental cars on the Dutch side all use plates that start with an R. this has been rumored to make them targets for break-ins as they know that the folks are rental and transient and the follow up with the local police isn’t much as even with an arrest it is very unlikely that a tourist will fly back to the island for a court date for petty crimes.

So as of today…rooms booked, flights taken care of, to include seat assignments. Most important there for us is to be on left side of the plane in front of the wing on the flight into SXM so I can take pictures of the island as we are coming in for landing.

Flights are KC to Dallas for an overnight stay then Dallas to Miami and Miami to SXM arriving at 1:55 PM. We will then grab a cab to Marigot for a ferry ride to Anguilla.

Three fantastic days on Anguilla and then ferry back to SXM for a week at our timeshare.

Return flights are an early morning flight out of SXM to San Juan. San Juan to Dallas and Dallas to KC arriving home at about 4PM. This is important to me as I will be leaving the next day to host a conference in Las Vegas. By then I will be pretty sick of travel for a couple of weeks any way.

Now am waiting to see if our buddy BBD John will be joining us in SXM with a guest.....John I am sure you will but we still need to make plans for you to stay....