Jah Mek Yah..a journey of discovery and destiny

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kingston20</div><div class="ubbcode-body">John Holt song let it load John Holt

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[rudemonk]

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Amitabha

[Nylah]

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K20, This report is in my top all time favorites and you still have more to tell....

I love (and can relate to ) the feeling of family continuity - your roots, and how much defines the person you are without you truly realizing it until you are older.

The photos of where your family house used to stand just touch me at my core.....

Bravo and thanks for sharing.

[Pepper]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kingston20</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
I purchase a cell phone holder to begin my transformation to look more like a local Jamaican (it’s the small stuff that give you away that you are a farriner) and couple of mangoes and a bag juice. I can tell I still stand out a little as all the little kids come directly to me selling their various wares maybe I look like I have some money, damn it and I wore my oldest shirt that day too.


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LOL, poor yuh. Try as you might, you can't hide being a farrinah. They always know.

Nice trip report.

[Grandmother]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kingston20</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Vi</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kingston20</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Some older men selling silver pots tell my father to park beside their cars directly in the market…and flash off the police man. Even in all this urban decay this act of kindness is even more deserving of applause, bravo to those two gentlemen. </div></div>
[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img] Kingston, I love, love, love your report. I'm smiling and hanging on every vivid word. I personally appreciate you taking the time to share. Picture reports are nice, but it's the words that make it live and give it the feeling of being in Jamaica. Your writing is excellent, I truly don't want this to end. </div></div>

Vi thanks it means so much, I thought I was boring people with the details but I wanted to give Jamaicans and non Jamaicans a view of another side of yard we dont normally see, even last year I stayed AI and did not see a 1/3 of what I expereinced this trip, this is fi unu as much as me. </div></div>

Kingston 20. To You I say Thank You and Blessings.This is by far the best Home Going report I have ever read. I just returned Sunday from a month in Jamaica, traveling with a new friend who is Jamaican, from Kingston for 10 days, to Portland, to Negril, and in the 24 years of my travels to Jamaica this was by far the Best trip ever, new eyes, new attitudes, new experiences,revealtions, most of them learning experiences. I think I traveled some of the same roads and streets as you, and your Report and your way of writing, truly warms my heart. Forgive me for mashing up your report but I have tears in my eyes while reading your Beautiful memories of what was obviously a Beautiful time of bonding between three generations of what is obviously a Wonderful and loving Family.

Thanks for the MEMORIES.

[MsExced]

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Thanks for sharing Kingston20 for me you have not experience Jamaica until you've experience Kingston. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/notworthy.gif[/img]

[trelawnysmall]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kingston20</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
good no great and kind people still exist in Jamaica fi real.

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I agree with this 100%.... I have met some of the kindest, generous and loving people living in Jamaica.

I am enjoying your trip report very much, thank you.

And thank you for Mr. Holt's tune this morning, makes me feel alive! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/bannana_purple.gif[/img]

[Laurel]

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nuff nice ~

[Vi]

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No, not boring at all Kingston. As a matter of fact, I wish you could elaborate even more. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img] I think Gullygirl put it best when she said it is her reality. No matter how many reports we foreign peeps write about being in Jamaica, we obviously will never convey the true feel of yaad. Other than our pictures, we can't deliver the reality.

Your writing style, your expressions of love and respect for your father and Grandfather, your memories along with the patois takes us ALL there. Looking forward to more. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img]

[Magician]

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So na'chily afta unu finish chat up di old neighbour dem, unu go a Gloria's fi nyam some fish! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hungry.gif[/img]

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[Hopyoneson]

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Gloria's was not this night we actually knew the real Gloria before she died its the kids who run the place now. Only pics without friends too clear in them have to respect dem privacy.

[Seveen]

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well i'm glad you remember us
yep - trip reports are an effort of love

we've been over here "viewing" with no new pics not'ing

get on with it - or we'll do arranged marriage with Vi "hey gurl"
the neverending trip report . . .


GREAT REpORT


just not done on a timely basis
turn in your timecard

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yuck did i [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/70459-hugs.gif[/img] K20
wonders never cease


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*kissteet*....so weh yu pickcho deh,..a wah yu fraid fah,...tell me a which page yu pickcho deh so mi can see a who a post report,...mi no like people who post trip report an fraidy fraidy fe post dem pickcho like smaddy aggo obyah de pickcho if dem poas it.

[Hopyoneson]

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Jamaicans are one of the few people I have come across who look you directly in your face when they first meet you to see if they know you from somewhere, most people I met in America give a glance to your face and if you not the same race or ethnicity you get the blank stare and quick turn away or a mean scowl.

Jamaicans have the uncanny ability to spot a friend from a mile away, the lady in red above was once the prettiest woman in Port Royal back in my grandfather’s day... she spotted him from down the road and ran down stairs full speed to greet him, we teased him all the way back home that she was more than his friend. Always a good sport he just smiled and then told us to tun off John Holt [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif[/img]



Our last stop, I am praying our friend who lives here gets well she used to babysit my dad and help Granny with the household.



Anyway it was a great day and we ended by dropping Gramps home and then heading to Devon house. The place was soo packed but the vibes were great just Jamaicans having fun and chilling with family, hard to believe the headlines sometimes bout the place.

The most fulfilling part was when Gramps thanked me for taking him back to Port Royal one more time…..no Gramps.. Thank you. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/notworthy.gif[/img]

[Hopyoneson]

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Papine and beyond

As a scout in high school we used to camp up by Papine and the surrounding hills. Papine was one of the few places that did not change but coming up to it the place sell off. The new American counsulate building looks like Fort Knox combined with a huge gated compound, did not take pics for obvious reasons. Enjoy my trip up to one of Jamaica's natural wonders.