feelin' Dominica

So after a missed flight that "stuck" us in Antigua for a night... is stuck the right word?... we finally arrived in our new home for the next couple years, the Nature Island of the Caribbean, the island where parts of Pirates of the Caribbean II was shot, the Island of Dominica. Leaving Antigua at 530 am after flying a redeye from Salt Lake to Newark, then a 4 hour flight to Antigua left these two cowboys wondering what we had gotten into. We boarded a two-prop puddle jumper in antigua before the sun was up. Luckily it was only a 30 minute flight and we had 4 or 5 other stranded classmates to keep us company on the trip.

The approach into melville-hall airport comes in low off the sea and traces a small canyon to an unlit runway, all routine no doubt for the caribbean pilots. We landed and embarked on a taxi ride along the coast and across the interior of the Island to our apartment in picard, right across the street from Ross University...

As we watched the sunrise over the undescribable island scenery, we thought, "yeah... I think we might be able to pull this off."... and one nagging question to all those we left behind in the gorgeous rocky mountains...
Wanna get away?...