Manda's first trip to jamaica sept 2011

[MoFromMonroe]

Wonderful wonderful wonderful trip report. One of the best I have ever read. I am surprised that Kahuna3(the author) has not chimed in here. That is very scary about the hand swab coming up positive. I get pulled into a room, get patted down and my hands swabbed every time I leave Jamaica. I am 61 years old and don't do drugs of any kind. They tell me it is random to which I reply "I don't think so since it happens every time!" I would totally freak out if they did to me what they did to you.

[Manda81]

Day 7 pictures

[southcoastgirl]

Andre Barber and Jacko are gonna feel like celebrities with people stopping by and asking for them!

[Manda81]

hahahahaha! They will love it

[Clarity]

Beautiful!
I really love that last picture of the two of you!

[cinnni]

Manda, Thank you so much for sharing your journey with all of us! I have enjoyed every installment of your report and love your positive spirit. Your positive energy shines thru every time u write and even with your ordeal at the end, you still radiate happiness!

[Dana1]

Thanks for sharing your trip report and pics....really enjoyed reading it! I was stunned to hear about your horrible arrival back home in TO. One year, my husband accidentally forgot a half-smoked roach in his shorts pocket on the way home...didn't find it till I did laundry the next day! Dogs came right around him and didn't sniff it out...thank God! We triple-check now before we pack up so we don't make the same mistake. Weird that you would still have a "smell" on you after sitting on a stuffy plane for 4 hours though...I think you were probably flagged cause you were a single white girl travelling alone and alot of their interrogation was just fishing to see if you would fess up about anything...just my opinion. Scary sh**...hope I never have to go through that.

[Jo-Ann]

Thank you so much. I have enjoyed from the beginning until the end (except the airport part)and all the pics. Staying with a Jamaican and travelling around with them is so much fun Can't wait for you to go again

[butterfly]

You have no idea, your trip report have me reminiscing so bad. That saying once you go u know is so true. I left jamaica in August 2011 and immediately booked my next trip for January 2012 for a 1 month stay. This wil be my 14th trip since 2000. On my first trip I traveled with my sister and friend. I met up with an old friend i met in the US that I haven't seen in 6yrs who moved back to Jamaica. He met us at the aiport at mobay then off to negril we went. I love a little adventure so we left the sister and friend in Negril, they was satifisfied with Negril alone. I went to his home in kingston, to do the native and local thing and hung out with his friends and family. It was my birthday weekend, and also carnival time in Kingston we did the carnival the club asylum, and off to Dunn's river in Ocho Rios the next day. The following day, back across the other side of the island to negril, picked up my sister and back to Kingston, asylum and Dunns River. We stayed in kingston for the weekend then back to Negril. I did all this in 8 days for my first visit. Each year since, my stays were longer and it's been more and more of an adventure. I can't explain of how excited it's been and how Jamaica has had such an impact on my vacations. I have explored the whole country and stayed in almost all the 14 parishes. I have traveled to many places but none can match Jamaica. I say, leave the All Inclusives and explore Jamaica. Trust me you can make a best seller based on your writing skills. I am a self-proclaimed writer and I will love to write a book about my adventures as well. Just haven't gotten around to it. You started your novel on the Negril Message board on your first visit. You go girl, LIVE SOME LIFE. Book your next trip so I can relive my adventure through you.

[Manda81]

Butterfly aside from travelling with a friend and sister your first trip has quite a bit of similarities to mine. Meeting up with a friend after years off to Negril then off to explore. I knew when I got back that I had to book another trip and the itch has been there more and more each day but with my report completely done now it's there even more! Would love to hook up with you sometime in Jamaica. I plan on seeing Port Antonio and Kingston on my next stay, hopefully! I'm not even sure how I would go about trying to write a book lol but maybe it's something I should put some thought into.

You wont need to relive your adventure through me though with a trip stay of a month coming up in January!! Lucky!!! I can't wait for the time that I can spend a month long stay. It just gives so much more opportunity for adventure. And with everyone else on the board fastly approaching their departure I'll hopefully be able to make it through the winter when I can get back there again