Feature

April 2017

Featured Image: The time we had Reef Bay beach all to ourselves on June 12, 2016, on Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands.

It still feels like March here at our home in Asheville today. At least for the moment, it’s gray and chilly. The ground is damp from yesterday’s showers, which lingered and persisted following the previous night’s monstrous thunderstorm and its unnerving downpour. Life is good every day, and yet, we all are truly ready for a change of season. We’ve earned it hour after hour, through work and non-work, living to the best of our abilities amidst everything coming our ways. Welcome spring! You’ve taken your sweet time arriving. Hit us with your full rejuvenating superpowers, and in turn, we will reach for new heights. In a few weeks, we’ll return to Saint John – not in person, but in episode 20 of “Rare Air.” April’s desktop calendar offers a sneak peek.

Here’s a memory lane wayfinder for our 2016 Saint John adventure, as it lines up here and in Rare Air.

Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands, June, 2016
. Rare Air Episode 16, Part 1: Trip overview; video from 6/17/16 near Annaberg Sugar Mill
. Rare Air Episode 17, Part 2: Compilation of some underwater footage
. Rare Air Episode 20, Part 3: Video from 6/12/16 at Reef Bay beach
. Rare Air Episode 21, Part 4: More Reef Bay video from 6/12/16, and info on the ancient Petroglyphs
. Rare Air Episode 22, Part 5: Video from 6/17/16 at Waterlemon Cay
. Rare Air Episode 23, Part 6: More Waterlemon Cay video from 6/17/16
. Rare Air Episode 24, Part 7: 6/13/16 at Ram Head, and info on hiking the Ram Head Trail
. Rare Air Episode 25, Part 8: 6/13/16 at Salt Pond Bay

Author, communications consultant, publisher, and career guide Roger Darnell is principal of creative-industry PR firm, The Darnell Works Agency.