Quote Originally Posted by Nick View Post
I stayed at Mrs. Rubys in 69 and 70. The flight from Miami was $56. round trip and the exchange rate was .80 to $1. US.
The Reef was spectacular back then. I enjoyed seeing the Conch Shell hill in the beach photo. That is something that we don't see much of any more. You are spot on about Mrs. Ruby. She was like a mom to so many of us young travelers.
Wow, Nick, I am a Johnny Come Lately compared to you. I remember being woke up by Bosco or A'Bosco, an older guy who had a house next door to Tip Top Cottages. Later he moved down toward the Roundabout and had a little bit of ground and grew ganga there. It was really early, with the roosters perched in the trees on Mrs. Ruby's yard crowing. I was in bed with a girl I had met the night before.

When I got out of bed to go visit Bosco, she moaned a little and tried to grab me, but I kept going.

I went over and sat on the stoop with Bosco and his buddies and tried to match them hit for hit on the chalice. Bosco made a bigger cloud of smoke come out of nostrils, but I held mine longer and let that ganga work its magic.

The girl was mad at me when I got back, but she was soon ecstatic as we engaged in some early morning, ganga enhanced love making.