Note I have stopped in the Virgin Islands on a cruise but I have not been there long enough to tell if it is a good place to stay. I will say that the clear waters are amazing and this is the only place where I ever walked along a dock and spotted those big foot-long conch shells sitting in the water. I was able to turn one over and show my kids the conch inside which was pretty cool.
I have lived in Houston since 1992 which has made last-minute travel and cruises to the Caribbean a pretty regular cheap getaway for us so I have spent time in many of the places. Where you want to go depends upon what your priorities are.
Places I don’t recommend to stay: There are nice things to see in the Cayman Islands and Jamaica, but these are 1-day cruise ship stops if you ask me, not destinations. Nassau Bay’s Atlantis is a great waterpark like no other, but it gets old after day 2. The island is tiny and not well developed and travel to other islands is not easy. Great place to go for a 3-day getaway if you have kids. Not a true Caribbean experience.
Do Marines really not need sleep during combat training or in general? If this is true, how and why is this possible?
Cruises are a nice way to see several small island ports and decide from the taste of each where you might wish to come back. However, you will not be at any particular port long enough to really experience what the location has to offer on a cruise.
Aruba: Diving Aruba is a very small island with 2 things that really stand out. If you like to snorkel or scuba dive, the water is crystal clear and the island is surrounded by diveable shipwrecks. But the other thing that is really cool is the fluorescent-colored iguanas. They are running around everywhere and don’t even look real due to the unreal colors.
Costa Rica: Adventure. If Adventure is your thing and cost is not a major factor, contact a Costa Rican travel group and set up a trip to Costa Rica where you stay in 2–3 different locations. Stay near the Arenal Volcano area 2 days and then stay at Monteverde for 2–3 days and either 1) Pick one spot on the Caribbean side for a couple days if you want beach time (the beaches on the west side do not compare), or 2) If you want to really do it up right, fly from there to Panama City, switch to the municipal plane and take the 20 min flight to Bocas Town where you can catch a Boat to Bocas Del Toro (which will be discussed in the best beaches section more). The Arenal Volcano will have you going for days on dune buggy rides to water falls, ziplining, repelling down waterfalls and other adventures. Monteverde has the best hanging bridges that take you over rain forests to amazing cloud forests, horseback riding and other adventurous excursions. We will be making out 3rd trip down there this summer.
Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support.
I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized.
he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that.
he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened.
he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence.
i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me
i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction.
after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly.
things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it.
we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe …
our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far?
this has upset me so much its hard to even function.
Places I would not go back to: Dominican Republic. If you like to get off the resort, this is not the place to go. Resorts have armed guards with assault rifles for a reason. We experienced the following ‘joys’ as we traveled around DR: food sickness, identity theft, a slashed tire, insane traffic because a red light has zero meaning here, one million mopeds on every road darting through traffic, getting pulled over at a random traffic check by men armed with a sawed-off shotgun and an assault rifle for a random car check for drug smuggling. If you go here, stay on the resort.
Bocas Islands Panama: Best beaches ever. Google Red Frog Beach on Bocas Del Torro. Google Starfish Beach in the Bocas Islands. These places are just as amazing as the Google images I have uploaded as a Google guide. You can get your own house in the side of a mountain with a golf cart to drive down to one of several beaches and there’s almost no one on them in the summer. It is like being marooned in paradise. Plus you can tour caves, take boat rides thru the jungle, see sloths…and of course wade in the 2-foot crystal waters at Starfish Beach with full-grown starfish sitting on the bottom all around you.
