Yes. Beautiful island. Home of Ferngully. Friendly people, unless they're crowding you to sell you some trinkets and trash which happens a lot. Some really desperate poverty amid the natural beauty and friendliness. Very mixed bag for an only child/emotional loner/ersatz hermit like me. If you go, do the touristy thing and climb the falls at Ocho Rios. It's worth it.
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Yes. Beautiful island. Home of Ferngully. Friendly people, unless they're crowding you to sell you some trinkets and trash which happens a lot. Some really desperate poverty amid the natural beauty and friendliness. Very mixed bag for an only child/emotional loner/ersatz hermit like me. If you go, do the touristy thing and climb the falls at Ocho Rios. It's worth it.
Lol yea ik i am from There in probably the worst neighborhood in Kingston (but hey i still turned out good lol
) I want to bring my family there sometime so they can see the falls.Lol yea ik i am from There in probably the worst neighborhood in Kingston (but hey i still turned out good lol
And if I said anything offensive, I apologize. Grandma and I would both like to do something about Third World poverty, but it's depressing for us to be there with it. Not unsafe (well, sometimes, maybe), just depressing. I don't know if it's being oversensitive or hypocritical, but for us, it does detract from the overall experience.
Aside from that, and the constant hawking (meaning selling, not clearing throats), we had a wonderful time. Climbing those touristy falls may have been the high point of that particular trip.
No nothing offensive. Grandpa did you say some where that you were in Okinawa? thats so cool i always wanted to visit Japan.
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Yeah, when I was in the Marines, I was stationed there and brought Grandma and the firstborn with me. We had our second-born while we were there. I think I documented it in Personal Stories.
But Okinawa is to Japan what Hawaii is to the U.S., i.e., officially and technically a part of it, but sorta not really. If you visit Hawaii, you're not really visiting the U.S. in a practical way. Same with Japan and Okinawa. Enjoyed our time there, though.
....and then they ate him.....
Do they allow anyone to go to Antarctica? lol
Neesy
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I don't know about Antarctica but I have been up to Alert when it was still the Northwest Territories
(It is close to Greenland, so very isolated)
Hey! - you can see Baker Lake on this map - that is where Andy is right now.
I want to go to Repulse bay 
Maybe they have tee shirts...
Maybe they have tee shirts...
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
If you go to Eureka, they have t-shirts that say "Garden Spot of the Arctic" (and you can see polar bears).I want to go to Repulse bay
Alert is so far north, even the polar bears don't go up there - they are too smart.
I don't know about Antarctica but I have been up to Alert when it was still the Northwest Territories
(It is close to Greenland, so very isolated)
Hey! - you can see Baker Lake on this map - that is where Andy is right now.
Lol nice! i don't like the cold usually but i would go there for sure.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Go in the summer (between March and September) - from September until March the sun goes down and it becomes completely dark up there.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
It is 508 miles from the North Pole - I was there in 1992 but I was there from March 4th to September 4th (a 6 month tour) so it was light the whole time!
Alert, Nunavut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(I only went there because I accepted a posting there with the Canadian military).
(Left the hubby and 6 year old son behind for six months!
Wow thats cool Neesy i did not know you were in the Canadian military.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I was in for 21 years but I have been retired from it now for 13 years (yikes!)
Much respect Neesy. Are they just like the u.s military?
My dad spent two of our winters (October through February-- summer down there) in Antarctica in the mid-1970s. He was part of a naval squadron called "Operation Deep Freeze" that provided support for scientists who worked at a permanent research station there.
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