nickcarr

  • Beyond Saint John: Day Trips to the British Virgin Islands & St. Thomas

    Beyond Saint John: Day Trips to the British Virgin Islands & St. Thomas

    Though we spent most of our week on St. John, we did want to check out some of the other islands, which are all relatively close. Below is a map of the Virgin Islands – in short, American property to the south-west, British property to the north-east. For our first trip, we decided to do…

    read more

  • Abandoned In The Caribbean: The Ruins And Beauty of St. John

    Abandoned In The Caribbean: The Ruins And Beauty of St. John

    The best part of St. John is walking through the forest – and then seeing something like this appear through the trees:

    read more

  • Welcome To Saint John, US Virgin Islands

    Welcome To Saint John, US Virgin Islands

    When my girlfriend and I decided to go to St. John in the US Virgin Islands (based on your travel recommendations!), I assumed we were in for seven days of this: I didn’t do much planning leading up to the trip. Part of it was that I tend to overplan vacations, only to end up…

    read more

  • Being Watched

    Being Watched

    I was recently up scouting the College of Mount St. Vincent, which has a gorgeous campus overlooking the Hudson River. Mount St. Vincent often appears during daylight hours as an archetypal college in movies and TV shows (the movie Doubt in particular). But personally, I love visiting at night. Seriously – how can you beat…

    read more