President Joe Biden on Tuesday was headed a place very familiar to him — the U.S. Virgin Islands — to enjoy some downtime and warmer weather and to ring in a new year with family. The White House announced late Monday that the president and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, would depart Washington on Tuesday for St. Croix, one of three islands that make up the U.S. territory in the Caribbean. St. Croix is a tropical getaway that Biden has been getting away to at least since he was vice president, from 2009 to 2017.