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This being my 5th trip since November to Jamaica, I thought I should travel more around the island after doing the business that needed doing for my new home in Mobay. So first things first. Get the business done and then enjoy Bashment and the rest of the island. Flew in in July 11 after a redy eye from Portland, Or which means not much good sleep. It was hot, hot, hot. Of course Customs starts the usual with me. Checking everything and then telling me I was going to pay duty on $18,000J worth of stuff. I said, but I'm going to move here, and she says then where's your Jamaican passport. I say but I'm a US citizen. She tells me to get a Ja passport anyway. Then I just happened to pull out my TRN and NIS cards and she says why didn't you show me this before and let me go through without paying duty on the stuff I was bringing in for a friend. Everytime I go and come back Customs in both countries goes through my stuff with a fine tooth comb. Whatever I have to do to get in the country is fine with me.
My guide was a little late picking me up. I had taken my suitcases across the street at the airport and was waiting for him there as I always do, when the first encounter with a Jamaican man happened. Bless their hearts cuz they always make me feel good when they start the flirting. He gave me his phone number and said if I needed anything to call him. Well usually when I return home from a trip to Ja, I have to clean out my purse of all the pieces of paper with phone numbers and I hadn't even been on the ground more than a couple of hours and it starts. I'm home, at least in my second home. We go to Ora Vista Guest House, Richmond Hill, where I like to stay, drop off the suitcases and go get something for me to eat. I'm starving because they don't feed you on American Airlines. I get my first taste but not the last of steamed fish on this trip. And of course have my first rum cream that mellows me out. Then back to my room so I can get some shut eye. Big day tomorrow!
July 12
Go out to Bogue Village to check up on paper work and the progress of the house. My house is the second on the left in the row of houses.
My guide was a little late picking me up. I had taken my suitcases across the street at the airport and was waiting for him there as I always do, when the first encounter with a Jamaican man happened. Bless their hearts cuz they always make me feel good when they start the flirting. He gave me his phone number and said if I needed anything to call him. Well usually when I return home from a trip to Ja, I have to clean out my purse of all the pieces of paper with phone numbers and I hadn't even been on the ground more than a couple of hours and it starts. I'm home, at least in my second home. We go to Ora Vista Guest House, Richmond Hill, where I like to stay, drop off the suitcases and go get something for me to eat. I'm starving because they don't feed you on American Airlines. I get my first taste but not the last of steamed fish on this trip. And of course have my first rum cream that mellows me out. Then back to my room so I can get some shut eye. Big day tomorrow!
July 12
Go out to Bogue Village to check up on paper work and the progress of the house. My house is the second on the left in the row of houses.
Loved the bush area. More pics of it. 
This is an ackee tree. 
Don't know what that blue is on his nose. When I check the pic before it wasn't there. Next stop, the prison where Dickey is a Corrections Officer. 
People were standing outside waiting to get in for visitor's day, their arms laden with items for their loved ones. For privacy sake I did not take a pic of them. 
Peace 
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