# Visiting St. Thomas **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 8, 1999, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-st-thomas/9176 "1999-10-08T18:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-st-thomas/9176/1 "1999-10-08T18:33:00Z")
The ship is anchoring out of Megan’s Bay in St. Thomas tomorrow morning. Any suggestions as to what I can see or do? If you’ve been there before, it would be a big help. ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-st-thomas/9176/2 "1999-10-08T18:50:00Z")
Yes, you can beam me there! ## The Virgin Islands is tops on my list of “someday” vacation sites. If I can see the future clearly, my wife and I will be taking a Caribbean cruise next spring and plan to include the VI on our itinerary. So have fun (but not _too_ much fun) and take notes. “If you had manifested _fatigue_ upon noticing that you had been an ass, that would have been logical, that would have been rational; whereas it seems to me that to manifest _surprise_ was to be again an ass.” Mark Twain _Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc_ ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-st-thomas/9176/3 "1999-10-08T18:57:00Z")
Conquer it. C’mon, you know you want to. All the _cool_ aircraft carriers conquer vacation paradises. Don’t you want to be cool? You’re not _afraid_, are you? What? We own it already? Oh. Try scuba diving. Most of these islands have tourist courses that don’t involve a whole certification thing. I did it in Hawaii and it was teriffic. * * * Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-st-thomas/9176/4 "1999-10-08T19:02:00Z")
Chief, I haven’t been to St. Thomas since I was a sprout, but I DO remember that the liquor there is quite inexpensive. If I were in your shoes, I’d plan on at least a day of swaggering through the streets with a quart of good Haitian rum clasped in one of my hairy paws, pinching the bottoms of shapely native girls. But then I have a strange idea of a good time. Send us a post card! * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Eissclam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2acd7d/32.png) [@Eissclam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eissclam)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-st-thomas/9176/5 "1999-10-08T19:21:00Z")
Chief: If you’ve got the time for a full day and the motivation to avoid tourists, take the ferry over to St John (ca. 45 minutes). It is the antithesis of St. Thomas – uncrowded, not touristy, small-time. You can go to the the national park there and do the underwater snorkel trail. For some cool St. John links try: [http://www.stjohnusvi.com/stjohn.html](http://www.stjohnusvi.com/stjohn.html) Of course, if you like tourists, stick to St. Thomas. EIssclam ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-st-thomas/9176/6 "1999-10-08T19:46:00Z")
Eissclam – Cool. Don’t know if I’ll have a whole day, what with all the ship visitors and such, but St. John sounds great. My main goal s to get away from all the guys I’ve been locked up on board with for the last two and a half weeks. Uke Ike – Ah, those were the days! But I think GBS would have somthing to say about my pawing scantily clad native lasses. I’ll always have memories though! (Rio – 1987. Now that was liberty!) And just in case **BluePony** sticks his nose in this thread – Nyah, nyah nyah! ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-st-thomas/9176/7 "1999-10-08T19:48:00Z")
How about a “non-touristy” place where I can grab a beer and watch some football, on island? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-st-thomas/9176/8 "1999-10-08T19:57:00Z")
Chief, you know GEORGE BERNARD SHAW? Paint ME impressed!!! I’m sure he wouldn’t mind; hell, he’d probably be pawing them right ahead of you. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 1999, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-st-thomas/9176/9 "1999-10-08T21:01:00Z")
Naw. Girlbysea. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 1999, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visiting-st-thomas/9176/10 "1999-10-11T14:43:00Z")
Oh! [embarassment] Here I’ve been racking my brain for some maritime morals organization that could fit the acronym “GBS.” When I assume, I make an ass of myself. * * * Uke