Sentences with phrase «get to the island of»

The best and cheapest way to get to the island of Hokkaido is to fly.

With connections via the American island of Guam or Tapei in Taiwan, nowadays it's not difficult to get to the islands of Palau even if they do seem very far from the UK.

You can choose from three options to get to the Island of Praslin.

Good karma gets you to the island of Maui, where the sun shines 300 - plus days of the year.

Not exact matches

But Eric had fond memories of visiting Orcas Island, so when he was living in Delaware and got a call from a relative to come out for a construction job, he was enticed to go back.

COPENHAGEN, April 20 - With melting ice expanding access to the Arctic, investors from China to Canada are watching Greenland's election next week for signs of the political will to get a flagging mining program on the island back on track.

To get started, here's the story of Orcas Island Taxi, which Charles «Eric» Whitehead started after a construction job dried up.

Even if it starts as a side hustle, identify what you want to succeed at and get going, LaCola says: «Remember, Wu Tang started selling their album out of the trunk of a car on Staten Island.»

«I recall a time they weren't able to get the boat out here for two months,» Keith Ahsoon, a Ta'u resident whose family owns one of the food stores on the island, wrote in the SolarCity blog post.

Many of these companies are getting a chance to test the U.S. market by selling goods at a pop - up exhibit called «The Edit» at the Roosevelt Field Mall on Long Island, New York.

Bridge or no bridge, Deluce was determined to get hold of the island airport's landing slots, and the best - case scenario was to have them all to himself.

Branson could spend all of his time on Necker Island, but he's using his billions and voice (he's got over 2 million followers) to try and solve some of the world's biggest problems, like the HIV / AIDS pandemic and global warming.

Tesla has stated that the microgrid will offset the island's previous use of 109,500 gallons of diesel per year, along with the import shipping costs to get that fuel there in the first place.

After you get your fill of playing in the water, you can hop over to the British Virgin Islands for a day and drink on a pirate ship.

«With 90 percent of cell towers on the island out of service, people can't get in touch with their loved ones — and it's harder for rescue workers to coordinate relief efforts.

But being a do - or - die survival situation, the government and people of Singapore got extremely focused, pragmatic, and competitive to do whatever it takes to make this tiny island thrive against the odds.

They make an unlikely duo — Donahoe, 53, was an econ major at Dartmouth, got an MBA at Stanford, and worked at Bain & Co. for nearly 20 years; Chesky, 32, graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and started Airbnb to help pay his rent.

Those who can't get to Rhode Island fast enough can take comfort in some of Oreo's other flavor ventures.

Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga has led the campaign to get the base off the island, while the central government has proposed moving it to a less populated part of the island called Henoko.

Our team is now stepping in to help with one of the island's greatest recovery needs — getting children back to school by rebuilding the Paix Bouche Primary School.

Another common factor here is that many of the places that suffered long blackouts have remote populations or have cities strewn across islands, making it difficult and tedious to get the necessary repair supplies in place.

It's been nearly two weeks since Hurricane Maria devastated much of Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, and President Donald Trump is just now getting around to visiting the island.

Communications to and from Puerto Rico are strained (cell service has been all but wiped out on the island; even the governor couldn't get through to his parents as of Thursday), but the situation on the ground sounds very grim.

The energy company also struggled to get equipment to the island, leading the Puerto Rican government to hire expensive charter flights, according to the newly publicized details of the botched deal.

Without a strong credit history, millennials may find it more difficult to get an auto loan or a mortgage when they're ready for those financial commitments, says Kent Thune, president and owner of Atlantic Capital Investments in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

Although Musk's idea doesn't solve Puerto Rico's current crisis — 90 % of the island is still without power, and many are having trouble getting clean water — it could set the island on the path to sustainable, renewable energy, which could reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels and ultimately bolster its economy.

Noteworthy factors here include the wind in the region, which the company has to get a hang of before it can deliver the best service it can in the island.

Since he was first elected in 1997, Mr. Goldring seems to only pop into the media spotlight when taking up odd causes like exposing the «truth about Louis Riel» or joining the bizarre drive to get the obscure Caribbean Islands of Turks and Caicos to join Canada.

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

This had the effect of creating the «GTA Island», and like Manhattan in New York City, if you can't afford to buy there, you will commute one to two hours to get to there.

If there were, I'd bet he'd sound more like GOOFY from Disney... and act more like Gilligan since he seems to want to give people cancer, let them lose their homes, get mugged, killed, etcetera... and not get their dreams (of getting off the island for example).

It strikes me today as ironic that the children and grandchildren of the families that fled or were forced from the city ¯ to Queens, Long Island, the counties ¯ are now clamoring and clambering to get back in, if they can afford the price of a closet or the stress of roommates.

If they have never been anywhere else but the island and women have not been there for 1000 years then it is safe to assume they are getting each other pregnant prison style otherwise 1 of those statements is not true....

Again and again Luke's accuracy is demonstrated: from the sailings of the Alexandrian corn fleet to the coastal terrain of the islands to the peculiar and shifting ti - tles of local officials, Luke gets it right.

He writes about the sixteen days he spent sailing the Pacific Ocean with five buddies and a crate of canned meat, the time he took his kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state, his stubbornness in getting into law school by sitting on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll, his «office» at Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland, the flowers he sent to the elderly woman who nearly killed him running a stop sign, the work he's done to free Ugandan children from prison.

Well, then you might want to help the police force of Long Island determine why, exactly, their classified documents got turned into confetti for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

We need more imagination to get out of our island mentality and to see the whole as one.

Kevin Prosch prophesied to me in 1994 that «the British invasion is going to happen and you've got three years to prepare for it», so I knew the time was coming when the songs would leave the island and bless the nations of the world.

«We have products that we get a lot of kudos for from visitors to the island, [but] they're not strong enough yet to go on the international scene.»

Any mention of meatball, any at all, and I'm instantly transported to pasta dinner at the Buggica house where we all form a line around the kitchen island and yell at the person at the front to hurry and find their toppings so we can get on with dinner, followed by loving ridicule of the chef (my grandfather).

This was the question I got asked the most when 1 year ago I announced I was leaving the city of Vancouver to live on Gabriola Island: What are you going to DO over there?

I haven't lived on the island for a decade now (yikes I'm getting old) so my knowledge of new businesses is limited to summer visits.

First, I would like to swim in this — just so I can get a taste of the tropical blue ocean island vacation, then eat it!

This Thousand Island Chicken Bake is one of the easiest ways to get delicious protein on the table!

If you go to the edge of the property, you get a gorgeous view of the edge of the entire island.»

Before I get too far into typing about Kona coffee beans; I would like to tell you a little more about the rest of the islands.

I love summer because I get to spend it on the north fork of Long Island with my family, boating, beaching and soaking up the sun!

I will be working from the comfort of my parents» kitchen island all week, and hopefully get a chance to do some cooking with Mom, too!

I'll be out of a kitchen for a bit of time while the floors get replaced in between my stove and kitchen island, and we might have to move out for a few days when the floors are ready to be refinished, but that won't be for a while.

Before I get too far into typing about Hualalai Kona Coffee; I would like to tell you a little more about the rest of the islands.