As always, if you ever have a window view you think could be a good fit for the contest โ not too easy, not too hard โ send it our way: contest andrewsullivan. Please remember to have part of the window frame showing, and horizontal pics are ideal. Thanks for all the submissions! The government has closed it to climbers.
Also, that cluster of satellite dishes and the proximity of cell antennas says this is a center of commerce. The view in the distance looks like St. Thomas, St. John, and the BVI. Are we in St. Croix, USVI, on the north shore somewhere? I give up! So many satellite dishes! Remote island nation, most likely, but Caribbean or South Pacific?
I even looked at Easter Island, because that would be the best VFYW location ever, but Easter Island is too remote with no other land masses within sight, like the view photo. Interestingly, Spencer Tracy starred in both movie adaptions, filming them 20 years apart. One rainy afternoon when I was in sixth or seventh grade in the s, my classmates and I sat on the floor in the commons area and watched Captains Courageous.
This is one of my most vivid memories of the time, because when the lights came up, I had tears in my eyes. I was teased mercilessly for it, but I challenge any of you to watch this movie and not cry at the end. He has to live on the fishing vessel for three months and is made to work hard and earn his keep. Rereading something you loved as a child is always a dicy business. It is classic Hemingway: manly men doing noble acts in the face of great hardship. It was his last book.
I read it in my English class in 9th grade and struggled to get through it. My goodness, even the trailer is slow and boring. The cars and the guy in the high-vis jacket have an American feel to them.
