re: Going to Jamaica mon

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It was the experience of a lifetime my friend.

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About 20 years ago I took a cruise with my family on the old Commodore Cruise Line. Docked at Montego Bay and took a 2 hour bus ride to Ocho Rios. On the way, my god, the poverty, you are right, people living up on the hills in houses made of basically cardboard and sheet metal. Roads with potholes that could swallow a bus.

Made it to the falls, did that. I was 20 and got offered weed about 487 times. Leave there, go to lunch, ate amazing jerk chicken and shrimp, drank red stripe, 2 hour bus ride back.

My reference point for poverty was the Lower 9th ward pre-katrina. The residents of the lower 9 would be kings compared to most of the island.