re: Going to Jamaica mon

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The local cab driver got lost? I'm gonna need what he was smoking

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It was the experience of a lifetime my friend.


I can't recommend a cab trip around the island enough. It was better than any roller coaster I've ever been on. The "roads" in Jamaica are awful. The drivers there are all qualifying for NASCAR. They use their horns as another form of communication and are constantly blowing them at everything from other cars, to people walking on the street, to dogs and goats. I sat up front with the driver and feel confident that I dug my nails into the arm rest and pissed his seat.

Pedestrians have no regards for their own safety. They walk down those narrow, shitty streets with their backs to the traffic. I think they want to get killed because of their shitty living conditions. Brown's Town, Jamaica will reframe your definition of modern conveniences and American standard of living.

Jamaicans speak another language besides English called Patois. It's a creole language and is basically English the lazy version. Our driver spoke Patois almost exclusively and would raise hell with other Jamaicans in it.

At Bob Marley's tomb, there were some crazy looking Rastafarian looking dudes: dreadlocks, white robes, tams, the whole deal. They were on the outside of the compound and there was a fence going around the place. These dudes were literally trying to push joints through the fence to people. Like I was gonna take a joint from some homeless Jamaican dude and fire it up.

Every "house" we passed had a barrel on top of it. The driver explained to us that this was to catch rain water for household use. There was little to no running water there.

I've heard that Haiti is worse. I find that hard to believe.....