{"id":976,"date":"2013-01-16T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/?p=976"},"modified":"2013-01-19T15:36:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T19:36:38","slug":"usvi-dec-31-2012-jan-16-2013-visit-by-the-ringens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tusentakk2.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/usvi-dec-31-2012-jan-16-2013-visit-by-the-ringens\/","title":{"rendered":"USVI, Dec 31, 2012 \u2013 Jan 16, 2013 \u2013 Visit by the Ringens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon and Cathie Ringen recently spent some time with us aboard Tusen Takk II<\/em> in the USVI.\u00a0 Jon and I have been friends since we were undergraduates at the University of North Dakota.<\/p>\n

Cathie arrived first at St. Thomas, and joined a bunch of us cruisers for dinner at the Green House in Charlotte Amalie on New Years Eve.\u00a0 By the time Jon arrived shortly before midnight, Cathie had retired to the Galleon B&B, and we had returned to our boat. \u00a0The next morning they took the ferry over to St. John, where they had reservations at the campground at Cinnamon Bay.\u00a0 After several days of camping, they were ready to join us but the seas were large and the wind blowing hard, so we couldn’t land our dinghy on the beach to pick them up. \u00a0They took a taxi in to Cruz Bay where we picked them up at the dock. They spent the remainder of their vacation with us on the boat.\u00a0 We had a grand time, with days spent snorkeling and\/or hiking and\/or exploring and nights spent playing cards, playing Mexican train and watching \u201cDownton Abbey\u201d, which we all found to be addictive.\u00a0 We all also got in a fair amount of reading. \u00a0We visited Francis, Cinnamon, Waterlemon, Greater Lameshur, Saltpond and Drunk Bays in St. John, and Christmas Cove and Honeymoon and Elephant and Charlotte Amalie Bays in St. Thomas.<\/p>\n

Alas, Jon and Cathie have not yet retired from their\u00a0 university professorships, so when they left us they were returning to teaching and scholarship duties — Jon as a philosopher of science and Cathie as a linguist.\u00a0 Let us bow our heads for a moment of silent sympathy.<\/p>\n\n\t\t