Good morning New York- We are on the last leg of our trip- Since I have internet at the hostel I will catch up this am.

October 3-Saturday

Today is a travel day starting with a 5 am+/- subway ride to the airport. It worked out all right but we did not get to the airport until 7:45am which cut their three hour time level to 2 hours. We had decided to mail some more things back from NY, and had gone to the post office to pick up a priority mailer and postage. When we got back to the hostel last night, we packaged up the Columbia book and some t-shirts and had them ready to mail since JFK airport indicated they had postal services at the airport. Even though we were running late, we decided to sprint to Terminal 4(we were leaving from Jet Blue’s International terminal 5) to mail the package. When we got there (return to the air train and a long concourse), we discovered that although they do have a post office, they do not accept packages. We ran back to Terminal 5 and got there a few minutes before they began boarding. Dick talked to a young lady at the gate who agreed to mail the package for us (it had gone through security).

We arrived in Barbados at 2:15 pm, managed to get through immigration and customs and found a nice lady at the Barbados Tourist agency who helped us book a room at the Maraval Guest House in Christ Church. Initially the bus driver took us almost into Bridgeport and dropped us off at a hotel with a similar name. We caught another bus back, however, that driver did not know the guest house either. We were dropped at Merryvale Guest house. Luckily, one of the guests there knew where the Maravale was and took us there. It is an older house very close to the beach with huge verandas all around the outside. The room was fine. Met a couple of girls from Australia who were staying there.

After a dip in the ocean on a beautiful white sand beach, a rum at the local beach bar and flying fish and cou-cou (made with corn and okra) for dinner, we retired, absolutely exhausted.