trip report / july fourth, twenty-fourteen

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Hi Kaycee…yeah, I’m back. Gotta get these wheels rolling proper and not drag it out for weeks…months…years…lol Thanks for letting me know you are still tagging along. Do you have a reach planned?

TAH…NO WAY! Face to face? I would have either wet myself, passed out or both. Pretty certain it would have been both because I can’t imagine being eye to eye with a bull…and he had horns. I’m just getting used to the roaming goats! Speaking of Treasure Beach, I would like to hear your and your wife’s impressions of that area if you don’t mind sharing.

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Hi Kaycee…yeah, I’m back. Gotta get these wheels rolling proper and not drag it out for weeks…months…years…lol Thanks for letting me know you are still tagging along. Do you have a reach planned?

TAH…NO WAY! Face to face? I would have either wet myself, passed out or both. Pretty certain it would have been both because I can’t imagine being eye to eye with a bull…and he had horns. I’m just getting used to the roaming goats! Speaking of Treasure Beach, I would like to hear your and your wife’s impressions of that area if you don’t mind sharing.

I mean, we weren't nose to nose, but maybe four or five feet? Pretty close either way, but I just quietly told missy to slowly step back, cross to the other side and keep walking. He just stood there watching, didn't really move at all. There were a couple guys in the shack across the path playing dominoes that didn't seem at all concerned, so we just moved along.

Treasure Beach is a special place, fi true. It's so different from any other place we've been in Jamaica, in a very good way for us. Extremely laid back and friendly vibrations, very little hussle to the place. It's an agricultural community, the tourism board limits hotel size and a lot of places are fairly eco-minded. We stayed at a small guesthouse on the coast, isolated from the main "town" (Frenchman's Bay) and loved every minute of it. The landscape is a mix of tropical and desert plants, the coastline is varied between beach and cliffs. You can walk pretty much anytime, day or night without worry about anything at all. We actually got lost one night walking back from Great Pedro Bluff to Calabash Bay, ended up walking down two track paths in the pitch black hopelessly lost. Out of nowhere comes some guy walking his little girl somewhere, who gave us directions, which we screwed up... lost again (I'm usually a good navigator, not this night) and ended up running into the same guy again 20 minutes later. At that point he took it upon himself to walk us through yards, fences, and eventually put us on the road we needed to get back to our place. We made it safely, though I'll admit I was a bit bugged out at several points, and was prepared to defend.

I could go on, but don't want to jack your thread. In short, we love the place.