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My trip to Plunder Island! October 24th.

wdrpgwdwdrpgwd
edited November 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
Hey peoples. I'm going on my first trip to the Caribbean next week and I'm really pumped. Anyone else ever make it to the Caribbean?

I'm going to stay on St. Thomas, just north of the town of Red Hook. It looks like Plunder Island to me. Blackbeard used to be there and Charlotte Amalie used to be a popular port of trade. I'll be also spending a lot of time on St. Johns, which is right next door and looks like Blood Island to me.

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I'm going to try and make it as close to being in MI as possible. So I'll be probably look for treasure, go to a barber and put lice in somone's hair, go up to strangers and say things like "I got this scar on my face from a mighty struggle!!" or "There are no words for how disgusting you are!!" or just poison peoples pets with strange yellow flowers I find. I'm sure it won't be that close to MI which makes me a little sad. :( Would be amazing to experience a place like that.

Anyway, I'll be sure to take pictures of anything that resembles Monkey Island for you all!

Comments

  • Jerec84Jerec84
    edited October 2009
    Be sure to remark upon the shoddy, 17th century electrical wiring
  • CalBearRJCalBearRJ
    edited October 2009
    You're going to love it! My family is from St. Lucia. The Caribbean is beautiful.
  • wdrpgwdwdrpgwd
    edited October 2009
    Oooh, St. Lucia was my first choice but my passport is expired so I'm staying in the U.S. islands.

    St. Lucia has beautiful mountains.
  • Edgy_McSpoonEdgy_McSpoon
    edited October 2009
    Enjoy your trip!

    If you experience something like that while you're there, then I'd admit that CMI was only a re-enactment of real life events and not really a story at all!

    Let me know if caber tossing is still there as popular as it was 9 years ago.:D
  • jhuddyjhuddy
    edited October 2009
    there are spiders everywhere man! I have a friend who was bit by a brown recluse.
  • ryanincryaninc
    edited October 2009
    The Caribbean is awesome, I've been there several times on various cruise ship stops. And we honeymooned in Jamaica. Really great down there, you'll love it. :)
  • wdrpgwdwdrpgwd
    edited October 2009
    Edgy_McSpoon wrote: »
    Enjoy your trip!

    If you experience something like that while you're there, then I'd admit that CMI was only a re-enactment of real life events and not really a story at all!

    Let me know if caber tossing is still there as popular as it was 9 years ago.:D

    I'm sure I can find a hill with a fallen tree on it. ;)

    Jhuddy, way to focus on the negative! I can't stand spiders. But we do have Recluse spiders in Northern Virginia.

    Ryan, I avoided cruise ships. I didnt want to go to an island and have a time limit. A couple tourist pamphlets of mine said that I could get a 3 hour tour of Water island and the thought of checking my watch every 20 minutes to see how much time I had left didnt appeal to me.

    I've rented a car and a boat so I can go wherever and whenever. So I'll probably find a scumm bar equivalent and just get wasted.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited October 2009
    Any idea when you will be back?
  • balin2kbalin2k
    edited October 2009
    ah man im jelous! enjoy the trip! be sure to wear pirate attire 24/7
  • wdrpgwdwdrpgwd
    edited October 2009
    I'm afraid I don't own any pirate attire, and if I did, I still wouldn't go out in public wearing it. :cool:

    Hayden, Ill be gone from Sat. 24th to Wed. the 28th. It's only a 5 day trip, and hopefully I'll find Epidsode 4 ready to play when I return. :)
  • ryanincryaninc
    edited October 2009
    wdrpgwd wrote: »
    Ryan, I avoided cruise ships. I didnt want to go to an island and have a time limit. A couple tourist pamphlets of mine said that I could get a 3 hour tour of Water island and the thought of checking my watch every 20 minutes to see how much time I had left didnt appeal to me.

    Yes, that is definitely a major downside to cruise ships. Only having a few hours on each island is nowhere near enough to fully appreciate it. Though, going back onboard the ship and having an unlimited, free buffet is certainly nice... :D
  • wdrpgwdwdrpgwd
    edited October 2009
    lol, I guess that's true... But that sure takes away from an authentic Monkey Island experience like I'm attempting to do.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited October 2009
    wdrpgwd wrote: »
    Hayden, Ill be gone from Sat. 24th to Wed. the 28th. It's only a 5 day trip, and hopefully I'll find Epidsode 4 ready to play when I return. :)

    That was actually precisely why I asked, to see if you'd be back in time to play it! You may wanna extend your trip a week or so though if you want episode 4 to be waiting for you when you return because many are predicting a November release. So you may want to drop by Skull (Duck) Island :)...
  • CalBearRJCalBearRJ
    edited October 2009
    wdrpgwd wrote: »
    Oooh, St. Lucia was my first choice but my passport is expired so I'm staying in the U.S. islands.

    St. Lucia has beautiful mountains.

    Bummer. I could have told you some good spots to go. Oh well...it gives you somewhere to go on a future trip!!!

    You're right about the mountains.

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  • MattmanReturnsMattmanReturns
    edited October 2009
    St. Thomas is awesome! I went there last year. Be sure to visit Magen's Bay... best beach ever. Snorkeling is fun there, and there are iguanas just chilling out on the beach. It's a trip.
  • wdrpgwdwdrpgwd
    edited October 2009
    Niice picture Calbear, It makes me a little annoyed I couldn't get my passport in time. :o

    Mattman, Magen's is where I'll be on day 2. I saw how beautiful it was in the brochure. I heard the Iguana's there have the ability to steal limes out of peoples drinks without knocking them over. :cool:

    Day 4 is the best day on the trip. I'm renting a Jeep Wrangler on St. Johns and going wherever I want on the enitre Island.

    And of course Trunk Bay is on St. Johns.

    st_john_trunk_bay.jpg
  • Shen-ZhiShen-Zhi
    edited October 2009
    i've been to the caribbean and the best monkey island feeling was in THIS town

    Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Cartagena_de_Indias.JPG
    http://espanol.geocities.com/hernandoangel/imagenes/cartagena_de_indias.jpg
    http://www.apartment-caribbean.com/assets/images/cartagena_parque.jpg
    http://gematours.com/foromic/images/ft-cartagena01.jpg
    http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1091/774984857_6b63c374e9.jpg


    but unexpectedly, the best feeling of a pirates nest EVER i found in italy

    Vernazza, Cinque Terre

    http://tortillabay.com/images/Vernazza_from_above.jpg
    http://www.photoatlas.com/photo/i-chinque_terre-Vernazza.jpg
    http://www.toskana-ligurien.de/cinque_vernazza.jpg
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNO26DwVV5w&hl=de

    yo-ho yo-ho and a bottle of rum!
  • Lena_PLena_P
    edited October 2009
    It's probably just me, but Shen-Zhi, your pictures of Vernazza make me think those buildings are having a dice game :)
  • Shen-ZhiShen-Zhi
    edited October 2009
    Lena_P wrote: »
    It's probably just me, but Shen-Zhi, your pictures of Vernazza make me think those buildings are having a dice game :)

    i sense a disturbance in the force. oh, no, it's a disturbance in your romantic piratey feelings thingie... start dreaming!

    and while in peru i nearly made it to monkey island:

    http://www.aitraveltours.com/english/main.html?http://www.aitraveltours.com/english/peruregionjungle.html
  • Lena_PLena_P
    edited October 2009
    Shen-Zhi wrote: »

    and while in peru i nearly made it to monkey island:

    http://www.aitraveltours.com/english/main.html?http://www.aitraveltours.com/english/peruregionjungle.html

    Dang! So we still don't know the Secret to Monkey Islandtm!
  • nitsujsedohrnitsujsedohr
    edited October 2009
    I just would hope to meet Guybrush Threepwood.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited November 2009
    So, how was your trip anyway?
  • wdrpgwdwdrpgwd
    edited November 2009
    Well, it was great and I want to upload all my photos and videos but my computer, which I also write my music on, isn't working... When I get it fixed I'll do all that. Thanks for asking though. :)


    Would anyone happen to know what 4 long beeps mean when running the bios on a gigabyte motherboard?? :p
  • jmmjmm
    edited November 2009
    Award or AMI or XYZ BIOS?

    Nevermind... go to this page for a more or less complete list
  • wdrpgwdwdrpgwd
    edited November 2009
    thanks jmm, I have award 6 bios. I think it may be a faulty fan even though it's still running. just really slow. I guess I'll pay 250 to have it fixed by geek squad....
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