We spent Christmas in the US Virgin Islands, St. Thomas and St. John, at some lovely anchorages on the south coast. The wind was picking up, so we sailed over to the British Virgin Islands while we could, and cleared customs and immigration on December 27 in Road Town, Tortola. Then we bashed our way to windward and dropped our hook at Fat Hog's Bay, on the eastern edge of Tortola, where we'll wait for the winds to come down a bit before we make the hop over to St. Martin.