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August 24, 2008
Back home...
... and settled.
I have been home for 3 weeks now but I wanted to post a blog commemorating my experiences in Jamaica. I've had a lot of time to reflect on the trip and have come to realized that I got a LOT out of the experience.
Folks have been asking for photos, so let me get that out of the way up front. My photos of the Trip to Strawberry Hill aren't currently working due to some MobileMe drama. I'm not sure what happened with them. They were fine one minute, disappeared the next. MobileMe hasn't exactly been the most reliable of Apple products but at least they are acknowledging it. I've posted a new album to my Gallery on Me.com with the rest of the pictures from Jamaica and hopefully I can restore the ones from Strawberry Hill soon. Here's a link.
I did go to Jamaica for work but we got the opportunity to play a bit while I was there too. I spent the majority of my time in New Kingston. Kingston is the capital of Jamaica, and New Kingston is the nicer neighborhood. I stayed at a building of condos called the Westbury. It was extremely nice and furnished well for the most part. Not everything worked in the apartment but all the essentials worked in mine and that's all you can really want.
We went to Portmore for work each day. Portmore is very close to Kingston. It only took us about 25-30 minutes to drive there. That's about the length of my daily commute here in the states.
We took a few weekend getaways while I was there. The most memorable was to Ocho Rios/Runaway Bay where I stayed at the all inclusive resort detailed in a previous blog and got to hang out at Jimmy Buffet's Margarittavile. I didn't get to see the Jamaica from the tour brochures until that point, but the entire time the country was full of beautiful mountains and the beaches were gorgeous. All in all a very cool trip!
Posted by Decemberice at August 24, 2008 07:06 PM