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I moved to Antigua in the West Indies (on the map at the link to the left we are located less then 1/4 miles from the ocean straight up from the top of the star indicating St. Johns) on August 19, 2000. I was offered and accepted a job with a startup Online Casino called DrHo888.com. The job came loaded with a ton of benefits including great pay and a completely snow free environment, plus many more, but those are the big ones that attracted me to the job. |
Life here hasn't been real easy. One would tend to think, "Hey, it's a paradise." It is compared to a nice winter day of blowing snow and -20C temps. But, when you are here for more then 1 or 2 weeks you are forced to deal with the locals on more then a casual touristy sort of way. Ever called someone for service of any sort (cable, phone, pager, car, etc) and they said it would take 2 or 3 days and it takes a week? Frustrated? Try waiting 2 or 3 MONTHS for the simplest of stuff, like an ISDN line. It took 2 weeks to get Long distance added to my phone so I could call off the island. Anyhow, I'm just bitching now. Ok, enough, on to our little Caribbean adventure. |
| In order to keep the main page a little cleaner I have moved all entries from the Year 2000 to another page. If you wish to see what happened to me in Antigua during the last half of the year 2000 Click on this link |
Our trip to the British Virgin Island of Tortola. We decided to take a couple of days and fly up to Tortola. It was a great trip. We did a driving tour of the island, what took a couple of hours and was a great way to see the island. Don't bother renting a car, let someone else do the driving. Too much to look at. Anyhow, there are a lot of pics. I don't have any descriptions, but the file names are pretty descriptive. | |||||
Here are some pictures from a birthday party we had for Robs Mother.
Yeah Yeah I know.. yet another party. Well, Cheryl slaved all day getting things ready,
baking cakes to feed all the people we expected (and that showed up). Cheryl had some of
the girls over in the morning to help decorate the place and blow up balloons. |
April 03, 2001 | ||||
Check out these pics. I went with some folks to Pinapple Beach perhaps
back in late May early June, I can't recall, but these are some pics from the underwater
camera my mother gave last year for my B-Day. If you look at a couple and don't think you
see anything in the picture of note, think "Where's Waldo" and keep looking. Some of the
fish are tricky little critters. | |||||
Ok, so I finally decided to take a much needed break from Antigua. What
better reason to head back to Canada for a week visit with my family. Right now I only have
some pictures from a Thousand Islands boat cruise I took with my father. He use to work for
Rockport Boat Lines and so he can get on the
boats when he wants. We got to ride in the Wheel house which was nice because it was warm in
there :) It was a little chilly that day. | |||||
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Well, the ride is over. The company has down sized and it's time to
move on. I will be heading back to Canada for a couple of days then moving on to the UK
to look for work. You can check out the new site at
Rob's UK Experience. It's up and running now. |
Second group to leave on Oct 18.
This will be the last update to this site. It will remain here until
the life of the domain runs out and it will be archived and move under one of my other sites
just for the sake of keeping the information around. I thank everyone that visited the site
while I was down there. I will try and keep the new site updated, but I must admit, it won't
have nearly the same number of pics as I won't be working with a group like this again.
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