Virgin island venturing

To the row of heaths! Faster driver faster, yah, yah! Or well yes, you can just sit there in sullen silence. It is 6:30am after all, can't really blame you, there are many other things I would like to be doing on a Sunday morning too.

They have Miniature costa coffee machines here now! This is smile making. Robista make me some of your finest crap-in-a-cup and don't spare the caramel syrups.

I feel this is something that warrants dissemination, so sneakily text it to one my friends as were about to take off. Apparently she already knows, and they have them there too. Damn, I thought this one was kind of special. I guess it'd be more of a discovery to find a Pret robista, then there'd be the coffee taste without the several kilos of sugar and crappy flavourings, maybe it could even dispense almond croissants. mmmmm.

Uneventful flight - "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter" was fairly decent as mixed genre vampire staking fests go.

Hello JFK i've never travelled through you before, I wonder if your CBP officers will be nicer than Atlanta's who questioned me for about an hour and then reduced by VWP length from three months to one.

Yey you are, though you know I used to have a girlfriend in California that's kind of scary.

Me: "So you really do record all that stuff?"

CBP: *knowing smile*

CBP: "So what are you doing for this company?"

Me: "Well sort of setting up a Dynamic DNS RADIUS driven cell service"

CBP: *blank stare*

Me: "Well you know how companies have equipment they put out in the field"

CBP: "Uhuh"

Me: "Well every time this equipment connects to the cell network, it updates something that lets other customers find it"

CBP: "Um... ok.."

Me: "I'm just looking at what equipment they have"

CBP: "But you're just looking right? You'll do the work back home"

Me: "Of course *big smile*"

CBP: "Ok you're fine"

This is a relief given the shenanigans with CBP that have occurred before.I imagine it's the same coming through the British version, only with more sarcasm, incredulity, and passive aggressivity.

I think the only pleasant mmigration experience i've ever had was in LA coming back from Costa Rica, where the CBP guy told me as long as I wasn't coming in to blow anything up then I was good to go, little did they know... hehehe.

Hello JFK! *walk walk walk*, Ooo train-in-the-sky, *walk walk walk*, Oooooooooo Harley shop buy buy buy. Ooooooooooooooooooo Sushi! Can haz California roles, Tempura roles and a giant Asahi plz? Nom nom nom, *walk stumble walk*. Oooooo train-in-the-sky *ride ride ride* Ooooo train-in-the-sky *ride back the other way*.

I will skip the details of the server inventorying. It was sort of frustrating, but I did get a job offer for when they open up a UK DC with something around a six figure salary. The person offering wasn't even drunk, we'd even worked together for a week! Good times !

Bye bye Atlanta, GA *wave wave* hello Puertorico! bye bye Puertorico, hello absolutely gorgeous inflight scenery, with little forrested uninhabited islands, and torquizey bluey mmm water. I think the flight from Puetorico to St Thomes is one of the prettiest standard commercial jet flights, despite only lasting 15 minutes... goodbye pretty scenery... oh crap were all going to die, a jet of this size should not be skimming that close to the top of the water, pull up, pull up!

Ahhh there's runway now *sigh of relief*.

Bye bye Jetblue jet, hello... Amber! Fancy seeing you here, on this island, in the middle of the Carribean, with amazing sunsets, surrounded by salty bathwater...