Sunsets, Rum, Sand and Gizzadas 97 Days in Negril

[Jamadian]

I just caught up with all your posts. Love reading you're adventures in Negril.
If I were ever to be reincarnated and had to come back as something other than a human, I'd want to come back as a cottonwood tree living on a beach or cliff in Jamaica. What a beautiful tree, I could see us sitting on one of it's branches with not a care in the world while we embrace the surroundings. Nice...

[Bluez]

I look forward to reading your posts everyday. That's so funny about the dog bone.... still chuckling

[HillCityGurl]

This was my thought when I saw the Cotton Wood Tree pic...

Cottonwood fallin' like snow in July
Sunset, riverside (seaside), 4 wheel drives
In a tail light circle

Roll down the windows, turn it on up
Pour a little crown (insert redstripe) in a dixie cup
Get the party started

Just couldn't resist.

I also love trees and natural surroundings. It was beautiful.

[Lady Jane]

LOL that butcher story is to funny. I feel bad the man lost is brown chicken hopefully he will have something else to prepare for a meal or three. I was told the cottonwood tree at the Lighthouse was 80 years old. Imagine cutting that down and making canoes out of it years ago? Must have been such hard work

[Kahuna3]

I was told the cottonwood tree at the Lighthouse was 80 years old. Imagine cutting that down and making canoes out of it years ago? Must have been such hard work

That's interesting that the Lighthouse cottonwood is 80 years old. I'm going to try to find out how old the big Lantrissant tree is. I'm so glad they don't cut them down for canoe building anymore.



It’s a beautiful day here today. Hot, sunny, a nice breeze, blue skies. I wonder if it will rain again this afternoon, if so it will be the seventh consecutive afternoon with rain. But it’s all good.

This morning we went for a walk down to Charela for coffee. On the way back through town we picked up some things at the market; bananas, ackee, tomatoes, jack fruit, and oranges. But nobody has any eggs. Third day straight – no eggs. Whaaa gwaan?

So tomorrow is New Year’s Eve. You know how they lower the ball in Times Square? – that would be the N.Y. Times Square, not the one in Negril. Well there’s a rumor going around town that The Corner Bar is going to be lowering a goat from the highest part of the hanging tree.

Speaking of Times Square – in Negril this time. You now know where to get the King Gizzadas. Good. We went back there recently and I slowly devoured every morsel of another King Gizzada, (OMG!). It was a hot day, but I’ve got to warn you – It’s really cold in there, and I’m not talkin’ about the A/C. You know the Seinfeld episode on the Soup Nazi? Yeah, like that. The wait staff in there are the King Gizzada Nazis. Cold, brutha’, cold, cold, cold.

We’ve been here a month now. Wow, that was quick! Funny how things that I would gawk at the first week I was here are beginning to look just ‘normal’ now. Not entirely, but it’s starting to go that way. Of course it’s natural that the sense of newness gradually fades away. On top of that, I've settled into my groove and I'm getting lazy now.

So, with the accumulation of days spent here, it becomes more difficult for me to see, feel and write about new experiences and to craft pithy impressions. (read . . . I’m running out of new material) For example, I don’t even hear the tree frogs now, except after a rain when they seem to sing three times as loud. Walking by a yard in the morning and hearing a rooster (or three) crow the rising sun seems perfectly natural. Indeed it is. But during my first week here I would have slowed my pace, turned my head and grinned. Today I picked up my hat from the railing and a gecko jumped out of it. I didn’t give it a second thought, until just now.

I guess I’m saying that I’ll keep on posting, but probably not as frequently. I won’t post for the sake of posting, I’ll only do so when I feel I have something worthwhile. But I will keep posting.


Now for some blatant self-promotion: For those that don't know, I have two published books that are set in Negril, a travelogue and a novel. You can find them on Amazon;

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...oland%20reimer


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One of my favorite people on the beach, sweet Myrna!


Fresh fish at the fishing village market.

[Bnewb]

On the way back through town we picked up some things at the market; bananas, ackee, tomatoes, jack fruit, and oranges. But nobody has any eggs. Third day straight – no eggs. Whaaa gwaan?

Yup...believe it or not we're low on chicken, beer bottles & eggs so far this season....

[rennie69]

Kuhuna3 just remember you go to long between submitting reports and pictures and DIF for the rest of us escalates and that would be torture

[HuskerJohn]

Thanks again for the ride!

[VVHT]

K3,

Love the pic of Myrna! No problems with the blatant self promotion!

Keep posting!

Thanks,

VVHT

[walter]

Your books are so good and informative, they should be made compulsory for all visitors to Negril.
Please keep writing !