Trip report sept 1-14, including pelicanbar, etc

[Lizardbeth]

Great Report and pics, thanks!!

[Craig123]

I've been crawling this board off and on for the past 5 years or more. I can't remember anyone posting so many pictures of the Jamaican people and relating things about them. What a f*&%@ing awesome thread!!!

The beach and water are lovely. The weather is devine and the food is great but for many (all?), it's the wonderful people who create that "Jamaican vibe". You can't find that vibe anywhere else in the world. Once you go, you know.

Thank you for sharing.

[bjritz]

Your Samsara sunset pictures are wonderful. Took me right there. The ones with the big cloud have great composition.
Super trip report. You had fun and thanks for sharing your joy.

[djntam]

Went to FCS for 10 years straight, played mostly "D" ball, one year played "B" and another Super "B", seemed like we played all over GA... Atlanta, Macon, Milledgeville, and Wrightsville one year when it rained really hard. Best year was '93 when we finished 7th of 141 in D at Softball Country Club. Remember beating Pops10 in first game and after the game hearing people talking about the team from WI, LOL!

One of the milestones was meeting Ray DeMarini in Macon, he interviewed our coach and some players for his TV show, then spent some time hanging out and autographed our team bus! Also met Gerald Perry one time at Hooters... Lots of great softball memories in GA!

And again, yours is one of the better trip reports I've read in awhile... Cheers!

[groove16]

flag city was so big it was played in several towns all across georgia...from 89 thru about 2005, it class c and d started on thurs night for the local teams and started fri at about 7 friday night and depending on where u were, straight thru until sunday....in 95, they quit letting out of state in the flag city unless you played b or above...btw, did you have super B, super c, etc..in wis...I think that was a georgia made up deal....the softball country club was about hour and half from us, we played there in the big tourneys, couple times a year...they had the 3 levels of fields, upper, clubhouse in the middle, and then the lower set...I remember finishing on the lower fields late at night, and them telling us, they are waiting for you at the top, you were wore out by the time you climbed the hill...they tore down the scc in 99 and built apartments...softball has gradually declined in georgia since...

I remember that tourney in 93, and I remember that team from wis...we took 13th, and was a round away from playing yall when we lost out...this was our best fcs showing at that point in our softball life....our scheduled gametime friday night was 2am, and it was behind, of course, and we started about 4am, won that game and had to play at 11am against a team from orlando named bennigans and they kicked our arse.....we batttled back and played several sat night and a couple sunday morning before we lost out, we played 9 games that weekend...I mentioned this to my brother last night, he also remembers yall, we got beat out by a team called white knights, a very scraggly looking bunch, dont know how they kept winning, and they went on to take fifth...we watched a couple of rounds before we drove home...

small world....

we had a few battles with pops 10 back then, think they wore purple...one of the hated north ga teams lol.....

we played in the class b worlds in 2001 in minn and in 2002 in mich...only 2 times I flew to play...felt like a big shot with my buddys strolling thru the airport, batbag in one hand, clothes back in the other...

those were the days....

[groove16]

I forgot where I was..I thought I was on serious softball message board for a minute...sorry..


well I guess this is my trip report...a good report went to a great report with a likkle softball talk...imo...lol

[groove16]

thanks guys for all the replies....didnt mean to drag this out so long, took a break at for the holidays and then it was hard to get back on it....Now I have one last half a day to report and it is over....I dont want it to end, since we have 3 months until we get back....for all that followed, hope you enjoyed....get to the last day in a few...

[djntam]

Yea,I had heard SCC was long gone, too bad, was one of the better places I ever played... And I think it was '93 when we played in five different states including WI, IL, IA, GA, and OH.

Always thought it would be fun to get a softball tourney going in Jamaica, but as hard as it was for us to stay sober for games in GA, imagine doing it in JA!

Cheers!

[groove16]

hey dj, just to rub it in a bit, got a call last night from some friends who need me to pitch, heading to play in a 5 game guarantee 1 pitch tourney today....

was gonna do bp today, this is better...

[groove16]

today is friday, sept 14th 2012, and we have to leave Negril today...what a buzzkill, but have to get back to reality...

I get up at 6am, do my morning stroll, I get Janet some coffee and she gets out at about 730..

Michael already has her chair set up by itself,

while I am enjoying watching the beach get itself ready for another day, I reflect on the trip we had, all the good times and all the friends that we will miss.

the locals are setting up, getting ready for the chance to help a tourist with their vacation needs, lol,

I guess life in negril will go on business as usual without us here, and it will still be here waiting for us when we return....

as I am sitting here, a local which I had not seen before, came strolling down the beach, you could tell he was selling something...remember this is about 7am, so not many people out yet, he stops at tamboo, and yells about his "clearance sale"....2 for 1 buds...he pulled out a handfull of big long buds and right out in the open, announcing his sale....he stopped at legends and showed one guy, heard him clear this time...clearance sell, new crop coming in...everything 2 for 1...the guy said no thanks, and salesman moved on to me...before I could say anything, Michael sent him away...he got to kuyaba, and these 2 guys were setting up their chairs, just got in last night, they told the salesman....he pulled out the clearance items, the guys asked how much, the said 40.00 a bud, but u get 2 for 1, lol....(It was a 5 dollar value at the most) about this time, the security from kuyaba walked over the break up the transaction...the guys paid what was asked and got what was offered...as the salesman walked away smiling, the customer looked to his buddy and said "see, i told you ...I told you we wouldn't have trouble finding it...You better believe me..." so both customer and salesman were happy.....I've seen many higgglers seeling the goods, but not out in the open like that...another only in negril moment....

while sitting on the beach, beachdog comes and joins me...





last few shots down the beach, again the kuyaba boat in my pic





michael setting up the chairs, you can see janets set up to the side with our stuff