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  • Ed Wetschler March 2, 2010 at 5:03pm
    Good guess, Chelle, but no cigar. It's St. Maarten -- the flat, Dutch side of the island. See my other post in the middle of this discussion.
  • Chelle Koster Walton March 2, 2010 at 4:32pm
    St, Thomas?
  • Diana Lambdin Meyer February 24, 2010 at 6:25pm
    Humm, a cheap plastic crown he'll probably buy at Wal-Mart or the Dollar General Store, or a flight to Grenada? It's 7 degrees in Kansas City right now... and since my name is Diana, I can't rightly claim I'm a princess.... I guess I'll go to Grenada. Ed, it was very nice of you to offer!!! :)
    Lynne - we'll have to take this act on the road.
  • Lynne Sullivan February 24, 2010 at 6:18pm
    Diana, Ed's prize is a trip to the Caribbean on Delta when they begin flights nonstop from JFK to Grenada in June.
    OR a crown...your choice.
  • Diana Lambdin Meyer February 24, 2010 at 1:12am
    Oh, now I've started something. But there's always gotta be a prize - or at least a crown. I'll settle for a crown.
  • Ed Wetschler February 24, 2010 at 12:54am
    The prize, Diana -- I hadn't thought much about that.
  • Diana Lambdin Meyer February 24, 2010 at 12:01am
    So what's my prize for getting it right? A trip to St. Maarten? :)
  • Ed Wetschler February 23, 2010 at 11:50pm
    It is, indeed, the Maho Bay section of St. Maarten. The classic photo was taken about 20 years ago: a plane coming down (way down) for a landing, and a kid on the beach waving his arm in a way that created the illusion that this was a toy plane he was tossing.
    Not the best beach on that island for catching a snooze.
  • Rosalind Cummings-Yeates February 23, 2010 at 8:16pm
    Hmm, looks like Aruba to me.
  • Jordan Simon February 23, 2010 at 6:42pm
    Well, the article in question covers increased flights between Canada and Cuba and Trinidad & Tobago. But I don't believe planes buzz Tobago's beaches that closely, and Piarco is closer to concrete than sand. As I've sadly not been to Cuba, I can't guess that, though it seems possible.... The island that comes immediately to mind is St. Maarten; the beehive structures are certainly unattractive enough, but somehow that doesn't sound quite right either. Still it's my best option, since that doesn't really look like San Juan's Isla Verde area. It sure ain't St. Barths (and as I recall there isn't a hotel right on the beach at the airport, though we all know the planes seem like they'll glide right into the Caribbean after the avian-worthy dive between the mountains, LOL).
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