Motown Guest House Port of Spain

I decided to take advantage of my paid vacation and spend two weeks in Trinidad and Tobago. My good friend Kevin Fortune, who I met in college, is from Trinidad and was a phenomenal tour guide. I stayed away from computers, cell phones and any reading materials related to the economy and/or the environment. <br><br> <br>

... and morphed into treasure. So for the past few days, the hard-working Nature Seekers employees would spend their nights guiding turtle tours on Matura Beach, and then arrive at the Nature Seekers office early the next morning to learn how to make glass jewelry. By the time we would roll out of our bunks and wander upstairs for brunch, these awesome young guys had been melting bottle glass with propane torches next-door for several hours already. Within a few days, the guys had ...

... entire back end of the kayak sank. I mean SANK below the water line. The sinking, of course, caused the kayak to tip over and dump Lee and Richard back into the water. Meanwhile, Peter was having no better luck with his single, and multitudes of paddles, water bottles, and sundry items were again set adrift into the open ocean. Being astute kayakers, Ronald, Richard, and I came to the realization that the vessel was obviously full of water and had to be emptied ...

... who come at night to view the turtles. A bunch of us were milling around at the Rustic Shack, turning in our radios and gear, swatting mosquitoes, and jawing with the young Trini guys who guided the tours. Now it was late....actually very early in morning, about 1:00 a.m....when four local guys in a souped-up Honda appeared out of the darkness and parked alongside the Rustic Shack. My cop-ometer immediately sent me into high alert, as the four houligans pitched open their ...

... br><br>Documenting the turtles is not easy. The first night, I felt unsure of how close I could get to the animal. The second night I felt more comfortable with touching her and being near her head while she was in her laying coma. By last night, night #5 of nighttime turtle science, Peter, Chris and I were at a whole-notha-level of comfort. With that comfort came some measure of foolishness on our part as to what we were willing to do for the sake of ...

... sweet crepe-like street food concoction, so I'm guessing maybe some Commonwealth Malays introduced the concept here, too, though the components are unmistakably Indian. You can't rule out the Chinese, though, considering they make Jamaican food in Jamaica and 'Creole' food here. Such are the mutations in the DNA of cuisine as handed down mouth to mouth over generations. Following in the great tradition of Britain's colonial island/city ...

well they say in europe they have watches and in africa they have time, well here in the land of trini, i have lost the concept of both.... i could say sorry for being a shocking correspondant, and it would be the truth. but im sure you are sick of hear that excuse so i will just cut to the chase. by reading my last entry i was put into a mild state of shock, because i thought that i had written updates more often... obviously not! well in some ways not MUCH has happened ...

... airport. The part of saying goodbye was hard because my niece has so much difficulty understanding why I'm leaving and for how long. Once I was on my flight and I had done as much as I could to prepare, I felt an overwhelming wave of emotions. Despite the sadness of leaving my friends and family and the fear of the unknown, I was truly excited about this new phase of my life that I was about to embark on. I arrived in the Port of ...

... define the love-of-life-lacking values of this country more than the United States. 4. BEGGARS MOLESTING YOU - The Port of Spain streets are full of people - usually blacks, and usually dirty, work-fearing rastafarians - who believe other people live to support them. When many Trinidadian blacks see a white person, they see green. Often, a black will act innocently friendly to you until he finds out you-re not going to contribute to his undeserving want. At ...

Hey, guys. Wonderful news. You get to hear now about the friends I had in Trinidad. I did meet some wonderful friends in Trinidad. That's because, as impossible as it was to make friends with the Trinidadians, it was equally impossible not to be friends with the many Venezuelan students studying english there. They just wanted to have fun with everyone. I arrived from my week in Tobago just as my Venezuelan roommate, David, returned from ...