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QUOTE=meagicano;6992664]I usually travel alone, this is the first time I'm doing "group travel" where I'm relying on others to make arrangements... and as a type-A, formerly military girl the lack of information is kind of making me insane. I knew SB could help though!!!!
Also - LOL on the Bonaire being south of Ontario comment. I'm in Nova Scotia right now and we saw the sun today but it was the first time in well over a week. Winter has been brutal already, I'm dying to get away from giant snowbanks and ice.[/QUOTE]
I hear ya on the type A, I'm a list maker/project planner/ducks in a row/leave nothing to chance kind of girl ~ already started putting clothes, gear and food aside for a March trip. Try to relax, despite all the information you may receive Bonaire is quite civilized, in a 2nd-world-country kind of way. We've been able find whatever we forgot, ran out of, or just plain want. (Though how my other half forgot his swim trunks kind of boggles the mind ~ it's a DIVE trip!) Our first trips were the group thing, now we are a group of 'just us'.
Check out some of the local eateries to stay on budget for food - Hagen sets up a food truck on Kite Beach/Atlantis dive site and grills up awesome burgers/lionfish. Makes a great surface interval to eat and watch the locals kiteboard. Mi Banana - half a chicken, 2 sides and a beer will run $13 US. Wattaburger in town (Kralendijk), the Chinese restaurant next to Zhung Kong grocery (just north of Capt Don's) has entrees large enough to split and still have left overs. Plazita Limena (Kaya Grande, Kralendijk) has a mixed grill for 2 that usually yields leftovers for a couple lunches. And there is always Subway and Kentucky Fried Chicken!
Enjoy Nova Scotia, here in Eastern Pennsylvania we are awating the snow-pocalypse known as "Winter Storm Hercules" and thanks for that arctic air rushing down from Canada. Fully stocked up on food, firewood, adult beverages, books to read, jugs of water, charged batteries...
