Gerry G's TRAIL OF ASHES TOUR Final Chapter -- The Mighty Californian's return

what a great report

"Later I met an 18 year old part-time expat at Ahh Bees. You usually don’t meet ‘em that young, but as things happened, his father had re-married a Jamaican, so he’s living here half the time and said he enjoys it a lot, though I wonder if there are many peers that young. The average age in Negril is 40-plus, I would think."

I admit I have only read the first couple pages when they were first posted, and these last three pages or so ... but I am confused by your above statement. "An 18 year old ExPat" not having peers in Jamaica?? I assume this young man was a white American or Canadian, or from some Country in Europe?? If his father had married a Jamaican Woman - is this woman white Jamaican or a black Jamaican, or a Chinese Jamaican? If his father has married into a Jamaican Family - regardless of the shade of skin or shape of eyes, this young man will have scads of new extended Jamaican Family. Heaps of Cousins, Uncles, Aunties, and regardless of what Country a young person spends time in growing up ~ of course there will be "Peers". "Everyone in Negril is 40 years or plus"??? You do not see young Jamaican people around Negril/Jamaica? You gotta realize there is more to Jamaica and Negril than just what you experience as an extensive Tourist ... with the Beck & Call Girls, whatever one smokes or ingests to alter ones moods for the "Tickets to Paradise", & the copious amounts of available Rum & Red Stripes. The opportunity for a young person to have the experience to "live" within another Country & Culture is priceless.

Just saying ~

Laurel I think what Gerry was trying to say is that you don't find many young ex pats living in Jamaica and that most you encounter are older. I don't think he was making any kind of judgement about the guy or the situation.

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Originally Posted by Laurel

"Later I met an 18 year old part-time expat at Ahh Bees. You usually don’t meet ‘em that young, but as things happened, his father had re-married a Jamaican, so he’s living here half the time and said he enjoys it a lot, though I wonder if there are many peers that young. The average age in Negril is 40-plus, I would think."

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I was referring to fellow expats.

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Spaghetti w double lobster tails

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Bloody Bay as beautiful as ever

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Driving along just as school is letting out

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Hangin' with top cabbie Shayne (The Mighty Californian is on the left)

Nice looking baseball cap :)

Here is some video in front of Seasplash. I think I said "Seastar" by mistake but there are no double-takes in my world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc8tg0epkd8

Great video Gerry. The beach looks even wider than in December. Ya mon

Marko had mentioned a red-plate driver named Manny for dirt-cheap local prices for cabs. For a mere ten dollars, the guy was willing to drive three of us – me, Kevin and his Montego Bay girlfriend – all the way to Half Moon Beach, sit there and wait for us for two hours, then return us to Seastar Inn.

Even a bargain hunter like me thought it was too little and offered 20 dollars, and away we went. Half Moon Beach is a special place that I try to visit on every reach because it’s totally secluded, and never ever ever are there any hustlers or anyone trying to hustle you or give you a sob story or anything like that.

We rolled up, then Manny rolled up. We jumped in the cab and made a right down the hill, past the roundabout, through seven-mile and the RIUs, about 15 minutes further just past Rhodes Hall to Half Moon. It was as beautiful as I had remembered, but Murphy’s Law set in soon after our arrival with some rain. Would you believe it? The only significant rain in my 12 days in Negril happened to occur when I was twenty miles away on a secluded beach. But we found shelter and made the most of it, and the trek was still a lot of fun.

I met John there again, the old British expat who is always at Half Moon. He didn't remember me, but he didn't lie about it, and I give him two points for that.

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Spaghetti w double lobster tails

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Bloody Bay as beautiful as ever

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Driving along just as school is letting out

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Hangin' with top cabbie Shayne (The Mighty Californian is on the left)

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That's a funny looking cigerett butt in the ashtray 123 :-)