Yes, I should have specified as there is the Jamaican one that supposedly is where the bud grows! Or so said my epic houseman (who could get ANYTHING you imagined and for dirt cheap, no joke he left a little goodie bag on the 3rd/4th day with bud and some more illicit drugs.) I was blown away and actually gave him my little Diamond stud earring when we left as he constantly commented on my jewelry. Those rastas were cool and even talked me into leaving the resort even though I was constantly bombarded by “DO NOT LEAVE THE RESORT OR YOU MAY NEVER MAKE IT BACK, DANGER!” 
I definitely saw some cool stuff in the last couple days. I have always wanted to go back and right before Covid a good friend had a wedding planned there, same resort too but sadly it never happened.
Now I’m craving some REAL jerk, roti and patties BIG TIME @Foreigner
Yeah that’s why we went too.
We went off resort a couple of times and the number of police roadblocks made me think twice but I didn’t see anything overly sketchy.
The jerk chicken station was only open 3 hours a day but goddamn it was good.
Nothing like it! I remember as you got nearish the slums/trench town/whatever it’s all you could smell and there was random cut barrels, regular barrels with a fire and old oven grill etc. everywhere and you could give them mere cents for a mouthwatering yet Spicey as f!?$ (in an amazing way) piece of jerk all sorts of stuff. I’ve tried to find something similar and even make my own, imported pre mixed jerk bottles etc. not even close. Although as I age I can’t handle the insane heat I once craved I still love some heat in my food and I’m obsessed with hot banana peppers or jalapeños, one of the two goes on everything and if not either of those………. Franks to the rescue 🛟
You could do a cruise to anywhere. Great experience, all inclusive and you can see a ton of stuff in port.
My wife and I love to cruise. Good food and people watching and all the ports. Just my 2 cents (with inflation, now negative cents 
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There’s a Jamaican place about 2k from me that I used to go to but I can’t go anymore. The real thing has ruined it for me.
I think there are some attractive things about this possibility. My parents are taking a river cruise down the…Danube…I think and it sounds really awesome.
Not for this trip but a cruise to Alaska maybe I’d be way into.
Was “befriended” by some rastas who invited us up to their house. One tried to drag my wife into the house to rape her. I got into it with them and finally he let her go while telling me “its alright mon”. WTF?
Another “friendly rasta” threatened to have drugs planted in our hotel room by staff he knew and the police called over a dispute that was all on them.
These are guys we’d hung out with for a few days and I was buying their beer for them
I’d never go back to Jamaica. Beautiful island. Way too many people that would stab you in the back for 5 bucks. Not to mention the constant “hand out” like you owe everyone there money cause you visited their country.
I consider myself a pretty good traveller, been to countries like Honduras, Guatemala, Columbia, never had a problem in any of them. Nope, never again on Jamaica.
Lyrics
Well, I just got back an? I wish I never leave now
(Where? d you go?)
Who that Martian arrival at the airport, yeah?
(Where? d you go?)
How many local dollars for a local anesthetic?
(Where? d you go?)
The Johnny on the corner was very sympathetic
(Where? d you go?)
I went to the place where every white face
Is an invitation to robbery
An? sitting here in my safe European home
Don? t wanna go back there again
Wasn? t I lucky, wouldn? t it be lovely?
(Where? d you go?)
Send us all cards and have a lay in on Sunday
(Where? d you go?)
I was there for two weeks, so how come I never tell now
(Where? d you go?)
That natty dread drinks at the Sheraton Hotel, yeah?
(Where? d you go?)
I went to the place where every white face
Is an invitation to robbery
An? sitting here in my safe European home
Don? t wanna go back there again
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah
They got the sun and they got the palm tress
(Where? d you go?)
They got the weed and they got the taxies
(Where? d you go?)
Whoa, the harder they come and the home of ol? Bluebeat
(Where? d you go?)
I? d stay and be a tourist but can? t take the gun play
(Where? d you?)
I went to the place where every white face
Is an invitation to robbery
An? sitting here in my safe European home
Don? t wanna go back there again
What? Rudie come from Jamaica, Rudie can? t fail
Rudie come from Jamaica, Rudie can? t fail
Rudie come from Jamaica, 'cause Rudie can? t fail
Rudie come From Jamaica, Rudie can’t fail
Yeah. I’m sorry those anecdotes sound really shitty and I agree that’s the vibe I got too.
Really friendly in the daytime (for the most part) but at night, or when they get you away from help…lookout.
Guess I got lucky , I ended up in some pretty shady places they could have robbed and killed my ass, nope. And I had my necklace on too (and that’s no joke) Damn bro I’m sorry that happened to you I’d kill a mofo for touching wifey 
Ya, I’m not sure I’ve ever been vibrating so bad as after that. Fortunately we’d taken a cab there and he was waiting in the driveway. We didn’t venture too far from our hotel after that. This was in road daylight too. i know better than to go somewhere like that at night. Plus we’d been hanging out with these guys for a few days…they seemed like good people.
I want to say Panama never been but would like to go. Been to Maui , Negril, Mayan Rivera , Cuba all throughout the US and most of western Canada .
“You don’t have to plant drugs in my hotel room. There’s already drugs in my hotel room. And I’d like to point out that I know where you live.”
I have no likes left guys but I like and appreciate all your inputs.
I can’t say enough good things about Panama. Even Panama City was no big deal which is more than I can say for the other large Central American cities I’ve been to.
Vancouver island in dec is pretty decent winter weather
I may have told this before on here…I had weed from two different sources there. One, from in front of our hotel (good weed) and one from a kid in a village up in the mountains (dynamite weed). But my wife preferred hash at the time, so I asked our “acquaintances” if they could get some.
So the white guy they were hanging with brings it to our room. I open it (supposed to be an ounce of hash) and it’s an ounce of weed, an ounce of hash, and a gram of coke. I tell him I don’t want the weed or coke, so he takes it back and we smoke some hash. I pay him and he goes to the rastas. Then he calls my room back immediately and asks me to come there. The two rastas that I’ve bought beers for all day for a couple or three days tell me I owe them for “breaking up the package”. After some discussion and them threatening me I tell them to take a hike, and they start telling me they know people who work there, and they can have drugs planted in the room and the police called.
This was all over me wanting hash, that I paid for, and them sending two drugs I never asked for. Nice guys.
@ShiskaberrySavior I wanna do BC so bad!
@CanuckistanPete i doubt I’d be going back after that either, unreal bro!
Ya the yayo is ABUNDANT over there to say the least! I know they do crap like that as it was done to me, but mine was a sampler I suppose, he never asked for anything for it. Maybe he was plotting but never got around to it, maybe he knew I’d eat him alive idk but the more crazy stuff I hear the more blessed I feel about me walking out of situations like that 
