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

[gerryg123]

It was fun meeting a lot of the boardies on the Bar Crawl, including wpyogi from Colorado. She is staying at the penthouse suite at Kuyaba, and that's very impressive because that's one of the best rooms on the entire beach!

The plan was a for a lot of us to meet at Bentley's, but you know how things go when everyone has been drinking all afternoon -- best to plan it by ear. I just told Bentley to have lots of crab cakes and that I would try to pull something together for him.

The first to arrive were Suzie Q and I, then wpyogi and her hubby (great guy, btw), then Katho (always with a big camera in hand), then Gugiray and Sweetie Pie along with Clarity and Hubbyman and Marley and Ralonzo and a few others. It was a real party up there!

Bentley was dishing up the food platters thick and high -- crab cakes, pasta, sweet rice, beans, carrots, spinich, callahoo and cabbage, plus lots of Magic Sauce, of course. Oh yes, and dumplings, the white gooey kind. Bentley makes them better than anyone ....

Oh my gosh did we eat. Markus said it best: "You keep hitting different foods, and one is better than the next."

He also served up homemade fruit juice, and he made everything from scratch while regalling us with great stories about the past, as Bentley grew up right in that house/restaurant up Pee Wee Lane (now called Ella Lane), just up the road from Blue Cave Castle.

I was seated next to Clarity, and I took a little break to whisper into Bentley's ear that Clarity was a terrific and extremely popular poster on negril.com, so make sure to take care of her. The great chef made his way over, pointed out all the different things on the plate, and said: "Look at that plate, you have FIVE things on your plate!" Clarity cracked a big smile, and over the next few days whenever I would bump into her at breakfast or some other meal, I would always immitate Bentley say: "You have FIVE things on your plate!"

It was such a fun time, such a great meal. Everyone really enjoyed it. By this time, it had been a few hours, dining, laughing and drinking in the moonlight, and Suzie Q was itching a bit from too much sunburn and a few bites, so we made our goodbyes (perfect timing, before the check arrived, ha ha just kiddin') and motored back to Seastar Inn.

[wpyogi]

It was fun meeting a lot of the boardies on the Bar Crawl, including wpyogi from Colorado. She is staying at the penthouse suite at Kuyaba, and that's very impressive because that's one of the best rooms on the entire beach!

The plan was a for a lot of us to meet at Bentley's, but you know how things go when everyone has been drinking all afternoon -- best to plan it by ear. I just told Bentley to have lots of crab cakes and that I would try to pull something together for him.

The first to arrive were Suzie Q and I, then wpyogi and her hubby (great guy, btw), then Katho (always with a big camera in hand), then Gugiray and Sweetie Pie along with Clarity and Hubbyman and Marley and Ralonzo and a few others. It was a real party up there!

It was great meeting you gerry (you, too suzieQ!)! Bentley's was an absolute riot that night. I wish we could have stuck around longer for the latter crowd, but as you said with drinking all afternoon, we were playing it by ear.

We spied you a few times later that week cruising the West End Road on your scooter. Unfortunately, our paths did not cross again.

(p.s. the Kuyaba room score was completely due to the excellence of this board)