TRAIL OF ASHES TOUR: The adventure continues as Gerry G returns to Negril

[kenje31]

Gerry, you are making me sooooo excited to know I will be there in less than 2 weeks!!!!

[irieworld]

Go Gerry and Brasi. counting on both of you to give me a Negril fix. Gerry--no photos? Anyhow loving your check ins and glad you got over the sore joints thing. Also I am sort of in awe of your scootering around everywhere--I rented a motorcycle one trip but did not get around near as much as you plus the kick start was not always starting. Maybe a scooter is in order for my next trip. One love!

[Clarity]

Enjoy your time in Jamaica, Gerry, I hope you keep writing. I’ve been enjoying your trip report.

P.S. Markus has been dreaming about renting spear gun and catching some lion fish. We only saw two lionfish on our last trip to Negril, but A LOT in April. (lionfish scare the bejezus out of me) I’m looking forward to hearing how it goes!

[monk]

ya, this fool with the Boston Red Sox hat was with a friend, too, and the friend was engaging me as all this happened. Do you think they might have been working together? That's pretty low. .... Now that I think about it, it's Scrub A Dub's fault. Had the club not hosted an event -- Popcorn and Tommy Lee, I think was the name -- and instead just had girls dancing, I would have been more focused. There were no hips swaying, and that threw me off, LOL LOL LOL .....

come on bro, of course they were working as a group. that's a very typical set up. the whole time you were staring down the one guy he was probably just keeping you engaged, letting you feel froggy and keep some face, while his bredren was doing the lift. I'd lay odds on that. pickpocketing depends on distraction. some of the crews are actually a little hilarious- one team caught at wavs during a stageshow was a man and man woman crew- by that I mean one man was dressed like a woman. They were hosing people left and right and just got too greedy and being from out of town tried to fleece a sav cop. Definitely the wrong pocket to have your hand caught in lmao. Anyway they had about 50 empty wallets stashed with a wig and dress. They didn't have any of the cash, there was a third part of the team who walked off with that.

don't feel anyway, it's not exactly that you were the white guy or whatever, pick pocketing is an opportunists job, catch them all the while and they don't tend to discriminate.

i wouldn't go announcing you roll out with so much cash much less announce anything of the sort. I don't see why people would egg you on about it to be honest just to fan the trip report, please be smart. no trip report is worth getting pinched out of all your cash and worse, as ackee said discretion is the better part of valor. You wouldn't go onto a NYC travel forum and announce where and when and how you were going to be about the place would you? Like hey everybody, I get into town tomorrow and I'm going to hang at XYZ Bar (look for me on a moped) and I always have 700 bucks on me!!! Would you? No man...lol...anyone who did that you'd think was nuggin futz.

Also, most Jamaicans, like 99.99999999999999999999999999 with a couple more 9999999999s literally detest thieves and will just as soon put a chop in one as look at one. Just so you know...anyway am not saying you should have shouted them out for street justice, just saying discretion is the better part of valor in the very first place right?

[poolguywindsor]

I am following along too, getting ready to tell my New Years eve story, from what I remember was like a Gerry G night.lol

[monk]

p.s.- if you simply MUST roll out with a ton of cash, keep it in different locations on your person, so that if you do get fanned they won't get it all.

[rastagal]

You should have posted the disclaimer like I did...keep the negativity to yourself! Anyway GerryG, this is good stuff. ON WITH THE SHOW!!!!!!!

[monk]

i hope nobody thinks i am being unirie lol!

[gerryg123]

Another fun-filled day pon the Rock ..... I found my way to the Seastar lobby area just as Brasi was being picked up by Bigga to go the country, and I started today with no plans at all -- just go with the flow.

First stop, Xtabi. I had missing that place so much, and in my sleep through the months I had been seeing myself back over there, ordering fru fru drinks with no alcohol, spark up, jump the cliff, lay pon the raft, repeat -- a proven formula.

Omar was bartending the early shift, and he was in a great mood as always. I drank a nice glass of mixed juice, then hit the water. Xtabi is so nice, I had my raft and everything.

I kicked down Omar to watch my raft (he says I am good for whole trip), then headed to Summerset Village. I had heard the place is a great deal if you do an extended run, though it's not exactly the Taj Mahal -- though some units do have AC, plus there is a nice clean pool ...... Problem was there no one around cept the gardener (he does more than flowers, btw ha ha), no one at the bar, etc.

So I was sitting near the scooter, smokin a spliff, kind of getting a feel for the place. That's when I saw her ..... a beautiful Jamaican lady tourist from Sav who called me over .....

[gerryg123]

She was a very pretty lady, about 30, and she invited me to her unit, asking if I wanted to smoke some hash with her.

There were three or four others around, including a young boy about five or six years old. The lady was quick to tell me that was not her child, so I was thinking is she flirting with me???? But then she also qucikly added that she had a young kid, too, just not right there right now.

Hmmmm. I don't smoke hash, too harsh, but I told her maybe I would see her around. It was all good. The gardener told me he could show me a room, see what it looks like, but the cold hard truth is, I would be a fool to stay anywhere else but Seastar, it's just a good fit.\

After an ATM run -- all 500s, what a trip, eh? --I took a little nap at Seastar Inn, then went downstairs and ordered a blended fruit drink, and they were also nice enough to heat up a plate from Bentleys that I had leftover from last night ...... I was going to go to Mayfield falls with some yardies -- Henry from Seastar was making the run, so I knew I would be in good hands -- but then I started remembering those potholes and slow roads, and I just did not want to be a van for such a long time.