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Bookings stayed sluggish right through December that year, though we clung to the hope
that things would soon pick up.
And eventually they did.
Jane called in early January to say that the house just up the hill from ours had been
rented for the following week by a group of classical musicians from the Pittburgh area. As
it turned out, the party was bigger than expected and they needed two more bedrooms. Was
our house available?
You bet.
We learned later that several of the musicians brought along their instruments and every
evening gave impromptu concerts by our neighbor's pool during the cocktail hour.
We tried to imagine the sound of classical music wafting through the palm trees at sun-
set just above our house. I must admit the thought made our dark winter days seem a little
brighter.
Even better, the merry band of musicians returned to the island the following year and
two of them (Carol and Scott) got married on New Year's Eve. Yet again our house had be-
come part of a love story, which we felt sure would generate giant waves of positive karma.
And it did.
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Another guest that season had an amazing story to tell, though we didn't know it until sev-
eral months after her stay.
All we knew at the time was that she was from North Carolina and that she was bring-
ing her partner and a couple of friends along. A quick Google search (yes, I admit that I
sometimes Googled prospective guests) revealed that she was a veterinarian from Raleigh-
Durham. Not much more.
But she left behind some clues about herself in our Comments and Suggestions book.
Her entry read:
Our week here has left us feeling extraordinarily connected to nature,
and at the same time pleasantly isolated from mankind, which was just what we needed. On
a personal note, our time in Vieques has been one of the most unforgettable experiences of
my life—right up there with meeting my fiancé, beating leukemia, and getting rescued by
helicopter after being stranded in a lifeboat for six days in the Atlantic
.
Huh?
I read it again. Then I called Jane.
“Did Erin mention anything about being stranded in a lifeboat in the Atlantic?”
“Who's Erin?”
“The veterinarian from North Carolina, remember?”
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