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<\/a><\/p>\n1. Navio beach<\/a>, Vieques. One that you need a Jeep to get to, for good reason. We’re home from vacation! We managed to plan our return at the ideal time, too; Minnesota suffered another horrible cold streak while we were gone, but we arrived home just in time for the warmup. It’s been gloriously spring-like the last couple of days. It’ll take me a while to get around to writing more, …read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","category-vacation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/12954216135_e042cf2584_b.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-18P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. San Juan street<\/a>
\n3. ‘Pon di beach in Barbados.<\/a>\u00a0(Accra\/Rockley)
\n4. Marigot Bay<\/a>, St. Lucia
\n5. Bally at Solomon Beach<\/a>, St. John
\n6. Our Jeep, Cap’n Ron<\/a>\u00a0in Vieques – so fun to drive.
\n7. Nelson’s Dockyard<\/a>, all the nautical nerdery (and scenery) you could ever want in Antigua
\n8. Proof that two Minnesotans can open a coconut with a machete.<\/a>
\n9. Delta jet over Maho Beach<\/a>, Sint Maarten – One of my favorite things we saw on vacation. The other was the BioBay in Vieques, and there are no photos!
\n10. Matt as an invalid<\/a>, hiding from the sun in Antigua
\n11. The view from my chair at Navio Beach<\/a>\u00a0– It was a very hard day, obviously. I used a palm tree as an ottoman.
\n12. From the city wall<\/a>\u00a0in San Juan
\n13. Bally on the catamaran<\/a>\u00a0in St. Lucia
\n14. You can see how crowded the beaches get in Vieques.<\/a>
\n15. The Ramshackle<\/a>\u00a0– our favorite waypoint in Vieques
\n16. Bally and the Captain<\/a>\u00a0at Maho Beach
\n17. On the tarmac at SJU<\/a>\u00a0getting off our 6-seat Cessna
\n18. Eli and Matt<\/a>
\n19. Les Pitons<\/a>, a UNESCO World Heritage site in St. Lucia
\n20. Cannonbally<\/a>\u00a0at Nelson’s Dockyard
\n21. The view from Blue Beach<\/a>, Vieques (this is the beach where you have to stay in marked areas lest you stumble upon unexploded ordnance)
\n22. Bathroom selfie at El Batey<\/a>, one of the greatest bars on earth
\n23. From the city gate looking across the harbor<\/a>\u00a0(San Juan)
\n24. Matt’s most-decadent birthday breakfast<\/a>\u00a0caviar and truffles!
\n25. Banks, the beer of Barbados<\/a>\u00a0on Rockley Beach
\n26. Matt, also celebrating 35 years<\/a>\u00a0together with St. Lucia
\n27. Vieques directions<\/a>\u00a0(‘Ceiba tree, beach, more beach’)
\n28. England expects that every man will do his duty<\/a>\u00a0signal flag display at the Nelson’s Dockyard museum
\n29. Bally and pal<\/a>\u00a0– our hacienda in Vieques was full of African masks.
\n30. Annoyed cat is annoyed.<\/a>\u00a0(One of the many, many feral cats in San Juan)
\n31. Solomon Beach<\/a>, St John
\n32. The west end of Vieques from Mosquito Pier<\/a>
\n33. Nelson’s Dockyard<\/a>, Antigua
\n34. Bally’s coconut hat<\/a>
\n35. The patio at our hacienda, overlooking the ocean<\/a>\u00a0– having breakfast here daily was incredible.
\n36. Sun Bay<\/a>, Vieques<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"