Trip Report: Lost Beach Day 3
Absolutely nothing happened on Day 3, but it will still probably take me three pages to write about it. We all slept in, and were occasionally awakened by the sound of sweeping: Harold and Mark sweeping the walkway behind our room, Harold sweeping the sand on the beach, Marcy sweeping the porch next door. We’d […]
Trip Report: Lost Beach Day 2
I know what you’re thinking. You’re wondering what happens if you don’t like the other guests. It’s a small place and you’re all there together, isn’t it sort of hard to be alone? Actually, no. I’m not the most social of travelers. My wife and kids make friends much more easily than I do. I […]
Trip Report: Lost Beach Day 1
OK, OK, I’ll admit it. I emptied our room’s minibar into my suitcase before we left Riu. Just enough bottled water, Red Stripe, Ting, Coke, and Sprite to get us through a few days. I had encouraged the family to take full advantage of the all-inclusive resort (in other words, eat and drink like pigs), […]
My Favorite Place is Montego Bay
Hello All! This is my brief personal experience of Jamaica. I have been there 6 times. My first time was in 1993 when I was 18 years old. I went alone but arrangements were made so I would have a room in the family home of a Jamaican friend who lives in my neighborhood in […]
Mi – Deh -Yah
“If fish coulda keep him mout’ shut, him would neva get caught.” RUUAWK – – AAWWK ! . . . . . . . . Ruuawk – – aawwk ! My eyes pop open. RUUAWK – – AAWWK ! (very loud, very close and from directly above) . . . . Ruuawk – – aawwk […]
Shake head and smile
“STRAW HAT, mister?” Richard looks up irritably from his sunbed. Oh no, not another beach vendor! The man is displaying more teeth than he thought any animal possessed. Apart from sharks. These wretched people! They keep on getting in the way of the passing scenery, quite spoiling Richard’s Caribbean holiday. All he wants is to […]
I will be spending more time in Jamaica
I got married last June and my husband and I honeymooned in his home town of Port Antonio. We stayed in the beautiful resort Goblin hill. In our villa we had our own personal cook and housekeeper. We went to the market with her and my husband helped he r pick out his favorite foods […]
The Other Side of Tourism – Part 1
Introduction Tourism, defined is “the practice of traveling for recreation or culture”. The other side of tourism, as referred to herein, is when the objective observer (namely myself) whilst traveling to Jamaica, for recreation, saw tourism in a different light — a blatant form of pandering at the expense of the integrity of ones’ own […]
Dreamed about Jamaica
I had dreamed about traveling to Jamaica most of my adult life. My friends say it started when I saw the movie “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”. But I knew the truth, I had wanted to go to Jamaica since my mid 20’s which was years before that movie was even made. I had […]
Valentine in Montego Bay
I had won the December photo contest for the Couples Resort. It gave us a free 3-night stay. Joe and I really needed to get away, so we decided to book a trip for February. We added 4 nights, so we’d have a seven-night stay in paradise. Last year, we had done the Couples Double-Take […]