Merry Christmas!

I would like to wish everyone or nobody (whoever reads this) a very Merry Christmas!

My Christmas will be spent in Barbados on a short overnight. It seems like almost all of our overnights are short these days. The only two good ones that I can think of are Canouwan Island and Nevis. Those are the only two islands that I really enjoy on our ever increasingly "efficient" schedules.

For example, last night I arrived at the airport at 7am. After a full day of flying, we took off a little late at 530pm for our three hour flight to Trinidad. So at 830pm we landed, by 900pm we were through customs and waiting outside for the taxi. After a 30 minute taxi drive we were finally at the hotel. It is now 945pm and I am walking down the road to a Long John Silvers for my highlight of the evening...crabcakes fast food style. Well, after I find it is closed for a company Christmas party I get a Strawberry shake for dinner at a little ice cream store and go to bed. At 5am my phone rings and it is time to get up...25 minutes to shower and get dressed, 30 minutes in the taxi and then three hours over the ocean...

Maybe you could understand now why pilots take off on wrong runways and make mistakes sometimes...do this kind of schedule for a few months and you are TIRED.

Goodnight and Merry Christmas from San Juan, Puerto Rico! Tomorrow I am up early for the "ping pong". We take off early and here is what we do: SJU to Santo Domingo to St. Maarten to Santo Domingo to SJU.