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The Essentials

Welcome, friends.

By way of introduction, this blog is an account of my life on the road as a flight crewmember. I also enjoy cooking, reading, writing, lounging, and photography when I’m not busy ‘saving the world’, as one friend says.

In the fall of 2007, I decided to move my professional flying career to San Juan, Puerto Rico after being based on the mainland for many years. This rambling blog is about my experiences in the islands as the new guy, where I don’t speak the language (in some cases) and almost everything is just a little bit different than what I know from the mainland.

Read on, my friend, and see the things that I see…

~ by JG on January 5, 2008.

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Tags: airline, Caribbean, flying, Second Life

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About Windward Journey:

This photoblog was started in January 2008 with the goal of documenting various people, places and things in the Caribbean. "OK, so who are you?" you ask... I have been an airline crew member for most of my career. Late in the fall of 2007 I decided to transfer my flying career to San Juan, Puerto Rico - a place where I didn't speak the language, had few friends, and knew nothing about the culture. My flying responsibilities regularly take me to virtually every island in the Caribbean, allowing me to experience, and share with you, vastly different customs and cultures on a daily basis. I also post entries about my life at home in Virginia, mainly for the benefit of my Caribbean friends who are curious about life in the Washington DC area. I've incorporated my lifelong love of photography into this journal, which I hope that you'll enjoy and pass along to others. I hope that you enjoy this blog, and I encourage you to leave comments whenever possible. JG

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