As a non-citizen, a visitor to your country if you will, even as a resident for over fifteen years, it has ever been my dream to find somewhere intrinsically beautiful, with a wonderfully temperate climate and welcoming residents.

I am perhaps not the most easily adaptive of individuals. Unapologetically Anglophile, certainly a degree eccentric and often overtly inquisitive of culture and habit.

Imagine, then, my amazement and pleasure, being the square peg I admit, to be welcomed open-armed within the pantheon of island inhabitants.

Citizens of the San Juans take a collective pat on the back for deserved and unfortunately rare humanity and consideration.

Trevor A. Welford

Olga