February « 2012 « Scouting NY

Inside A Williamsburg Bar That’s Been Boarded Up For Nearly 19 Years: Scouting What Remains Of The Ship’s Mast

Posted by Scout on February 27th, 2012

A couple of years ago, I wrote about a little boarded up storefront at the corner of North 5th & Berry in Williamsburg:

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Gone For Good: The Elk Hotel & The Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge Finally Bite The Dust

Posted by Scout on February 21st, 2012

One of the weirdest little holdovers of a bygone Times Square can be found at 42nd Street and 9th Avenue, where a collection of four-story apartment buildings sit nestled in the shadow of the neighboring skyscrapers.

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Final St. John Post! How Much We Spent, How To Greet Islanders, and Am I A Shill??

Posted by Scout on February 15th, 2012

I hope you’ve enjoyed my recent posts on St. John. Like most people, I always assumed the Virgin Islands were just some pretty beaches and pleasant rum drinks. The fact that over 60% of St. John has been protected as a National Park, from its beaches…

…to its forests…

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Beyond Saint John: Day Trips to the British Virgin Islands & St. Thomas

Posted by Scout on February 13th, 2012

Though we spent most of our week on St. John, we did want to check out some of the other islands, which are all relatively close. Below is a map of the Virgin Islands – in short, American property to the south-west, British property to the north-east.

For our first trip, we decided to do a “highlights” tour of the British Virgin Islands via a group charter boat. Leaving St. John, it wasn’t long before the island chain began to look like the mountain range it really is…

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Abandoned In The Caribbean: The Ruins And Beauty of St. John

Posted by Scout on February 8th, 2012

The best part of St. John is walking through the forest – and then seeing something like this appear through the trees:

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Welcome To Saint John, US Virgin Islands

Posted by Scout on February 5th, 2012

When my girlfriend and I decided to go to St. John in the US Virgin Islands (based on your travel recommendations!), I assumed we were in for seven days of this:

I didn’t do much planning leading up to the trip. Part of it was that I tend to overplan vacations, only to end up feeling like I need a vacation from the vacation. But another part of me simply assumed that all St. John had to offer were beaches that would make a Corona ad jealous. That, and maybe some restaurants.

About a week before we left, I finally picked up a book called St. John Off The Beaten Path, by islander Gerald Singer. I started flipping through – and immediately stopped on this picture: