If I took a cruise ship and went to any of the Caribbean islands, I could meet with a coach or an athlete I know there, ... That's pretty neat.

If I took a cruise ship and went to any of the Caribbean islands, I could meet with a coach or an athlete I know there. That's pretty neat.

It was like working on a cruise ship.

Grand Turk Island is so named because it is the largest island in the Turks Islands, which is the smaller of the two archipelagos that make up the island nation. Grand Turk was first settled in 1681 by Bermudians, who started a salt industry. In 1766, the Island became the territory's capitol, Cockburn Town. It has the second largest population of the archipelago with 3,720 people. There are those that believe that it was here that Columbus first set foot in the America’s, and although San Salvador is still accepted as being the actual island where he landed, there is convincing evidence that this may not be so. For years Grand Turk was frequently referred to as Grand Cay. Grand Turk gained attention in 1962, when John Glenn's Friendship 7 splashed into the Atlantic Ocean, off the southeast shoreline of the Grand Turk Island. A replica of the Friendship 7 is on display in Grand Turk at the entrance to the Grand Turk Island International Airport.

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

We were at the cruise ship greeting all of our visitors as they departed, and almost everyone of them had just wonderful things to say about the city, about the volunteers, and I mean it was just...it was incredible.