IGC's New Home

Island Gurl Chronicles has moved from Blogger/Blogspot to just plain old islandgurlchronicles.com.
As we transition in January to our new site, old posts will be republished for a few weeks.
Expect the first new post to publish on January 24, 2018.

I'm working on growing my platform and this new website will allow me to do that with more ease. Thanks for coming on this journey with me as I reminisce on island life. I hope to see you on my new website as we continue the journey there.

Happy Holidays, XOXO Island Gurl

Happy Holidays from Island Gurl

This will be my final post for the holiday season. I will be too busy making new memories with my family and friends that have ventured up into the cold weather to spend time with us for Christmas and New Years. If you enjoy reading my stories/memories and want more, go back through the blog to see if you missed some of my first posts.

I Taste Just Like Candy, That's why the dogs chase me

Year: Some 90s Summer
Place: Tortola, BVI

I Taste Just Like Candy...........

The title of this post is not what you're thinking. Get your mind outta the gutter.

We were literally chased down the street by dogs, here's the rest of the story......

Remember in my other post where I said my cousin, aunt, and I would randomly be dancing in the middle of the street every time we heard Foxy Brown's, "I Taste Just Like Candy" song. Well, this one particular night we were walking down the road from Huntum's Ghut to Lower Estate. This is a walk we took practically everyday when I started to stay by family in Lower Estate versus my younger days stays in Huntum's Ghut.

We were going back 'home' for the night after hanging out with friends when a white car came around the corner (yes, I remember the color of the car) pumping tunes out of their load sound system. Pit stop on the post. If you're from the islands you know sound systems in cars were a big deal. The louder the better. They even had car shows where people competed to see who had the loudest, cleanest, best sounding system on the island. Some of those clashes were epic. Ok, now back to the story.

Walking was a breeze then, now not so much

Year: 90s to 2000s
Grade: All
Place: All over town, St. Thomas

Walking was a breeze then..........

On my other blog, Nobody's Princess 101, I wrote a post about my best FitBit week while on vacation which was a whole lot of walking that week that felt like nothing. This made me think back to the days back home where we basically walked just about everywhere and it felt like nothing.

I think living in the states now has made it so where we are so comfortable sitting or driving down the street that we take for granted that we used to walk to these places back home with no problem.

I mean I walked everywhere back home.