Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Tropical Storm Dean

He's a persistent guy. We've been watching him over the last two days, debating what to do... go ahead with the plans, try to find an alternative, cancel altogether. Unfortunately, although we purchased the hurricane insurance, it turns out it's virtually worthless as it won't cover us until there is a complete cessation of all travel services at our destination. Sweet.

And though you might think there would be a plethora of last minute deals, surprisingly, that is not the case. We had our choice of several third rate, very poorly reviewed resorts - seriously, the first three reviews of one of the places were "Worst Vacation Ever" "Don't Come Here" and "Terrible vacation." Wonder why they had last minute openings!

Eyeing the projections which weren't too bad this morning, we decided to go ahead and confirmed this afternoon. Then the 5:00 projection came out. Saturday afternoon, category 3 hurricane. So we're either stupid and cheap being unwilling to forfeit the entire cost of the trip or else we're just crazy optimists hoping it will shift again tonight. Shift shift shift. Out to sea Dean, go back out to sea.

It may be the shortest vacation ever if, as we suspect, we are evacuated on Friday. At least the insurance will kick in at that point!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

but think of the scrapbook pages you can make ;o)