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sunnybay
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 02:07 pm |
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...including Admin and "...a handicraft vendor’s cart that reads “Open Some Days/Closed Others” Wonder who that is??
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/travel/escapes/28culebra.html?ref=travel
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glen
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 04:48 pm |
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Please, Please....I am trying to keep the island a secret...what's up with all this travel news? LOL
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 05:40 pm |
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| A bit slipshod on the facts, eh? $32 one-way from San Juan ? 47 years old ?
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 05:47 pm |
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(and this excerpt)
But just because developers have left Culebra alone so far
doesn’t mean the Culebrense aren’t slightly anxious about
what the future might hold for their island. On a recent
Saturday, a small cruise ship pulled into the harbor and
caused quite a stir.
“That was really disgusting,” said Laurie Knowlton, a
47-year-old transplant from New Jersey who has lived
on Culebra for a decade. She fell in love with the island
in the 1970s, when she was vacationing with her parents.
Back then, most of the roads were still dirt, and tourists
were few and far between. After trying her hand at a
number of odd jobs like folding laundry and making her
own hot sauce, she now publishes a local guidebook and
runs http://www.gotoculebra.com , a Web site that
offers information about visiting the island.
“That’s the beauty of Culebra,” she said, smiling as she
sat at the bar at Mamacita’s hotel and restaurant and
pondered the unhurried pace of the island, which has
only about 2,000 year-round residents.
“We’re not a place that has cruise ships, night life"
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 07:39 pm |
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all i'll say on the subject is yes, there are inaccurate quotes. I'm not 47 for another month. That was a certain gift shop owner who sucked me into the conversation in the first place.
and there is a word missing before the word disgusting.
and a couple items are missing from my resume. although I was pretty good at laundry.
oh my.
truly folks......it was that gift shop owner (and another couple that sell boats in the summer) that got me into the jam in the first place.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 07:52 pm |
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Must be a New Yorker to call Lisa's NJ accent *faint* 
The photographer who took pics for the article (one made it in; what a great shot!) was a super nice woman freelancing from the big island...I ran into her about 5 times that day, one time at the beach where we were both taking pictures of the surfers. Her cameras made me feel like I had a Brownie point & shoot!
I like the phrase *handicraft vendor* so much. I think I'll start wearing overalls and a straw hat from now on...
And Laurie? You've never even OFFERED to fold my laundry...and...how 'bout that hot sauce! Maybe one day you could even open a store...
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 07:55 pm |
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Easy on the NJ jokes.....he happened to be from NJ, and had briefly lived in my home town.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 08:51 pm |
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Well, that part of New Jersey is New Jersey. Lisa's from JOISEY! 
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 09:33 pm |
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| And as Laurie's brother pointed out, another of the "travel" articles in the NYT today is comparing the hamburgers at each of the five rest areas on the New Jersey Turnpike. Something for everybody????
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 10:03 pm |
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it just goes to show what a wonderful state New Jersey is. at least it doesn't snow on robins in NJ.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 10:21 pm |
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What part of Jerseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee are you from
Also..I am a bit confused...I thought administrator was liviing in the snowy state of Maine... not a transplanted NJerseite living in Culebra
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 10:26 pm |
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I am a transplanted Culebra girl living in a god forsaken state where it snows in June (yes, Island Woman, that is straight out whining -- I've had it with being cold, wet and miserable).
BUT, I did tranplant to culebra from Exit 9
Southern tip of Somerset County -- Rocky Hill.
the pretty part where they grow tomatoes to die for.
and it doesn't snow in the spring.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 10:31 pm |
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Hey,
Grew up right off Exit 9..Rutgers Village in New Brunswick...but it did snow lots there when I grew up...and yes the tomatoes were great!
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 10:35 pm |
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LOL....
I knew I liked you for a reason!!!
I grew up in a beautiful old farmhouse on the canal near Rocky Hill, and my brother teaches at Rutgers......
someone send tomatoes please.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 11:00 pm |
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ok..though I post under Glen(esta es mi esposo) I am Tricia and mi esposo is a graduate of Rutgers Pharmacy School..when it was located in Newark. We were married at Kirkpatrick Chapel on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick. So where does your brother live and what does he teach there.
It sure is a different place from when I grew up. Johnson and Johnson bought up a bunch of the downtown and revitalized it.
And why would you leave Culebra for Maine! and I am almost certain we met when you had your hot sauces on the island...now I buy them from MJ when I am ther.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 11:05 pm |
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I knew you were Tricia, but thought you might want to stay under the guise of su esposo.
Marc is in Landscape Architecture and is the IT guy in the department, and still lives in the farmhouse we grew up in.
there were a few reasons why I decided to move to Maine......but my heart is still in Culebra......
and I owned the Peppery Parrot, and the cart before Island Woman bought it.......
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 11:21 pm |
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| ok then for sure we spoke at length when I was there the time before my visit this past Feb. That would have been in March of 2002. I sure hope it won't be five more years before we get back. Hopefully not now that our five children are educated and all but one is married. We had had a wedding every year for the past four so planning those and education kept us away. NO excuses now.
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Posted: Fri Mar 28th, 2008 11:23 pm |
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that was me........
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Posted: Sat Mar 29th, 2008 09:54 am |
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Nobobdy ever asks " where's dat Pennington exit?" anymore...
Island Woman MJ wrote: Well, that part of New Jersey is New Jersey. Lisa's from JOISEY!
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Posted: Sat Mar 29th, 2008 11:55 am |
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Nope...nobody...and nobody sings Newark songs either..
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