Good thread, Carol!
Here's one of mine:
On our last day of our first trip to SXM we met up with friends at Sam's on Front St. for our goodbyes! Time passed and it was time to call a taxi for our trip to the airport. Lo and behold it was Carnivale and Front St. was closed as were the surrounding streets. NO TAXI'S available!! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" /> Panic set in and none of us had a car.....back in those days. So, Sword comes up with a great idea......let's start walking! To the freakin' airport??? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" /> 'Sure', says he.....'there's bound to be a taxi between here and the airport!' Yeah, right!! Don't know what we were thinking, but I agreed (must have been the strong drinks at Sam's ). So, off we go dragging our luggage, no wheels back in the day, shlepping them in that heat!! We must have gotten a few hundred feet from our gang when I just knew this was an impossible task! I saw a little boy, around 5-6 yrs. old and asked him if he could get one of his parents to make a call to a taxi. Out came his dad, (a local St.Maartener, we later found out) and listened to our plight. He didn't think it was a problem because he had a car and would be glad to give us a lift to the airport!! We didn't want to bother him, so asked if he had a magic way of calling a taxi. No, he insisted he drive us!! So, his little boy and he helped us with our luggage and gave us a lift!! We offered him some money which he refused, but as we were getting out of the car managed to toss into the car! We left SXM with promises to return.....not because of the wonderful vacation we had just left, but the warmth and generosity of this gentleman. My only regret was that we didn't get his name. <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Sad.gif" alt="" /> If he or his son are reading this forum, I wish they'd send me a P.M. They lived on the Back St. area.
And so began our love story with SXM....... <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Joy.gif" alt="" />

<img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/newyears.gif" alt="" /> Contessa

BTW.....I have many, many more........ <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Joy.gif" alt="" />