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  • We were living in Haiti and needed a vacation as there had just been a revolution. We decided to do some Caribbean island hopping. The day we left, I caught dengue fever. Sick on the plane. Landed in Puerto Rico and took a hovercraft. Hurricane close by. It was so rough, I couldn’t stay inside and lay on oil barrels at the back. By the time we got to St. John, my nose had sunburned so bad, it was oozing fluid. (It’s been redish ever since) In St. John, wild donkeys broke into our tent and ate all our food. Took a water taxi to Tortola. Tenting on the beach. The whole town(except us) evacuated because the hurricane was approaching. Spent a wild night. Huge winds. No one around the next morning so we ate coconuts that had fallen during the night and hiked out of there. Worked our way back to St. John to catch the hovercraft back. It had been canceled because of the hurricane. The dengue lasted seven days. Felt horrible the whole time. At the end, I got extremely itchy hands and feet. Not fun. It made a good story, though.