03-23-2014, 06:50 AM
Hello...I have been hanging around Jamaica message boards since 2002 when I planned my first trip with my son to celebrate his high school graduation. Next trip down was in 05 to celebrate love and life with my new bride Laura (who BTW is Canadian for all those Canadian lovers like me ). Then it was a month each summer in 06, 07, 08, and 2010. I have only been in the summer because I don't like to feel rushed and a week just wouldn't do it for me.
I work a public school schedule...been a school psychologist for 23 years so summers work out great for travel. We travel alot around our beautiful state of Michigan. Laura recently landed a new job in a service call center after several years of being a stay at home mom. My three adult children have all been to jamaica at least twice. Also have two step sons in middle school and high school and 3 grand children, none of whom have been to Ja yet.
It's been four years since the last trip. Too long.... I keep an eye out for trip reports and the comin's and goin's. I continue to dream and plan and save. I have a return trip in the works for this summer...God willing. I will most likely be travelling solo for the first time, as Laura has her new job and the kids are poor and enslaved. So the plan this trip is to travel light...only backpack/carryon...take buses and route taxis...explore other parts of the island including visiting friends on the north coast and hiking blue mountain peak...and renting a car and drive for the first time on da rock. In some ways, this will be a trip celebrating the freedom of my youth. I used to be a backpack/hitchhike type of traveler and perhaps because I am turning 60 next month, I feel the urge to revisit the more carefree freedom those days. This summer offers me that opportunity. Anyway, it has been fun dreaming!
Peace...
I work a public school schedule...been a school psychologist for 23 years so summers work out great for travel. We travel alot around our beautiful state of Michigan. Laura recently landed a new job in a service call center after several years of being a stay at home mom. My three adult children have all been to jamaica at least twice. Also have two step sons in middle school and high school and 3 grand children, none of whom have been to Ja yet.
It's been four years since the last trip. Too long.... I keep an eye out for trip reports and the comin's and goin's. I continue to dream and plan and save. I have a return trip in the works for this summer...God willing. I will most likely be travelling solo for the first time, as Laura has her new job and the kids are poor and enslaved. So the plan this trip is to travel light...only backpack/carryon...take buses and route taxis...explore other parts of the island including visiting friends on the north coast and hiking blue mountain peak...and renting a car and drive for the first time on da rock. In some ways, this will be a trip celebrating the freedom of my youth. I used to be a backpack/hitchhike type of traveler and perhaps because I am turning 60 next month, I feel the urge to revisit the more carefree freedom those days. This summer offers me that opportunity. Anyway, it has been fun dreaming!
Peace...