Sunsets, Rum, Sand and Gizzadas 97 Days in Negril

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Try Swordfish on of our Favorites. Always very tender. I think they beat the hell out of it (the sea puss)... Stewed down in coconut milk.

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Those Damn Motor Bikes (!! Venting Alert !!)

The motor bikes here are relentless. If I was a Tweeter I’d tag this #DamnNegrilMotorBikes!!

You may remember, in a previous rant, that I said that my biggest beef about Negril was the #DamnNegrilMotorBikes!! Well that feeling has hardened. The #DamnNegrilMotorBikes!! roar up and down the roads here all day long and most of the night.

Don’t get me wrong; I like motorcycles just as much as the next gearhead. I’ve owned a few myself. And, at least once per trip, I’ll rent a bike and go for a ride in the country.

But the #DamnNegrilMotorBikes!! riders here, are a big problem. This is a list of some of the behaviors I witness virtually every day:

- speeding (like two to three times the speed limit)
- reckless driving, (weaving all over the road for no apparent reason)
- failing to stop at a stop sign (they just beep and ride through the stop guards at Grand Pineapple)
- unsafe overloading of a vehicle – I’ve seen up to six people on one bike. Really, six.
- improper passing – inside, outside, and on blind corners
- riding while drinking a box drink/Guinness with the other hand
- riding while talking on a cell phone
- riding while texting (seriously)
- operating a motorcycle while impaired ( how do I know? ummm, just maybe?)
- operating a motorcycle while stoned
- driving on the wrong side of the road
- operating a motorcycle on a pedestrian sidewalk
- operating a vehicle that creates excessive noise
- riding a motorcycle without a helmet (OK, not against the law and maybe good for the Darwinian principle, so forget that one)
- DWI (driving while an idiot)

There’s a bike taxi guy who runs around up here; this must be his area. The other day he dropped a guy off just down the street from where we were walking. He turned the damn bike around to return in the direction from which he had come. He gunned the bike and popped a wheelie, then, as he passed us, he made his damn bike backfire three or four times. Rude bwoy, rude.

One good thing about the torrential rains we get occasionally; it keeps the #DamnNegrilMotorBikes!! off the road for a while.

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Bike taxi dudes, lounging in front of the 'No Bike Taxi Parking' sign.