Hey Rocknrollfarmer,

The Irie Feelings Show is a compilation of several years of trips to JA and in total is 30 minutes. Green Hill for example is in Portland Parish up the hill from Buff Bay. I don't know exactly how many miles it is from Negril but back in the 70's and 80's (before highways were built in JA) it was pretty much an all day journey to get there but well worth it. Back then the "Big Bus" was THE method of transportation, slow but really awesome. It is unfortunate too that the Jamaican Railroads were destroyed during the past 20 years by hurricanes and to my knowledge with the exception of a short line near Kingston today there is minimal train service. I took the train twice from Kingston to MoBay and it was the coolest thing I have ever experienced in the context of travel and I have been all over the world. It was a very slow ride and brake downs happened frequently. The cars were very rustic, wooden bench seats, no AC or other comforts afforded elsewhere but that just added to the ambiance of the experience. Just like car drivers in JA the horn was utilized often and was very loud as there were many crossings that didn't have any kind of warnings that a train was approaching. I remember like it was today leaning out the open windows and getting all the different smells as the train meandered through different topography. It was really Cool Runnings!!!

John