For the record, also like most, what weighs on my heart more than anything are the humanitarian issues involved, and thinking about all the folks we've come to know down there over the years... including our most recent visits to a couple of the animal shelters and wondering what happened to them.

The trip planning stuff is a regrettable practicality.

On a side note, we honeymooned at La Belle Creole in 1990 and bought our timeshare at that time at Mullet Bay, both of which got wrecked in Luis in '95 (though not The Towers), and both never rebuilt but coincidentally just started to have inklings of rebuilding. So I expect that many places won't be rebuilt for a long time, though others may come back more quickly. So whenever we eventually get back down there, which I expect to do someday, I know it'll be different. We'll just need to know when the island is ready.