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| - | **Larry Goolsby** \\ | ||
| - | 11/13/05 #772 | ||
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| - | Dudes......Got in late last night after spending the last week in\\ | ||
| - | Jamaica. My trip there was quite eventful starting with an offer\\ | ||
| - | from U.S. Airways (while we were in Charlotte, N.C.)to fly an\\ | ||
| - | alternate route to Jamaica and they would reward us with 2 roundtrip\\ | ||
| - | tickets anywhere in the U.S. or Caribbean, plus a $20 lunch voucher.\\ | ||
| - | This would have put us in Montego Bay 1.5 hours after our scheduled\\ | ||
| - | arrival. We took the offer and were sent to Miami to catch an\\ | ||
| - | American flight from there. About halfway to Miami, we saw a woman\\ | ||
| - | run down the isle of the plane and say something to the stewardess.\\ | ||
| - | The stewardess grabbed an oxygen tank and ran to the back of the\\ | ||
| - | plane. She then ran back to the front and grabbed a fire\\ | ||
| - | extinguisher. What kind of emergency uses both an oxygen tank and a\\ | ||
| - | fire extinguisher? Anyway, while we were trying to figure out what\\ | ||
| - | was happening, the plane went into a dive and they announced that we\\ | ||
| - | were going to make an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Fla. Turned\\ | ||
| - | out to be a fire in one of the bathrooms caused by an electrical\\ | ||
| - | short. We now were stuck in Jacksonville and had to wait for a plane\\ | ||
| - | to come and get us to take us to Miami. This meant that we would\\ | ||
| - | miss our connection in Miami. U.S Airways was pretty good about\\ | ||
| - | resheduling us again and rewarded us with another $20 voucher. Once\\ | ||
| - | we did make it to Miami, we were blessed with having to go back\\ | ||
| - | through ticketing and having someone stamp out ticket with "SSSS"\\ | ||
| - | which labeled us as a security risk. We did not realize this until\\ | ||
| - | they sent us through a special line in security where they checked\\ | ||
| - | every square inch of our bags and bodies. This used up over an hour\\ | ||
| - | and we almost missed our re-rescheduled flight. Got into Montego Bay\\ | ||
| - | only about 4 hours late but now had to endure a 2 hour ride on rough\\ | ||
| - | roads to Ocho Rios.\\ | ||
| - | I was looking forward to doing some paddling at this resort but\\ | ||
| - | their idea of kayaking was different than mine. They had these short\\ | ||
| - | plastic sit-on-tops made by Hobie that had a beam width that was\\ | ||
| - | about half the length. The paddles had huge fat blades, a 90 degree\\ | ||
| - | right-hand feather (I use left hand), and weighed over 5 lbs. each.\\ | ||
| - | These paddles were really uncomfortable to paddle and I gave it a\\ | ||
| - | good hour before I said screw this and headed back in (my arms were\\ | ||
| - | getting painful). I asked for a different paddle but the local\\ | ||
| - | native said that it was a perfect paddle and that I was the one with\\ | ||
| - | a problem.\\ | ||
| - | The resort was all inclusive with a liquor dispenser in each room\\ | ||
| - | (gin, vodka, rum, and brandy) and 7 restuarants. We found that\\ | ||
| - | because of the 90 degree heat, it was good to start drinking at\\ | ||
| - | about 9 am. Food was great and plentiful. The cool thing about all\\ | ||
| - | of this was that the resort had a fleet of Hobie cat sailboats that\\ | ||
| - | were free to use as long as you knew how to sail. Of course, I told\\ | ||
| - | them that I was a great sailor and knew all about harnessing the\\ | ||
| - | wind in 2-3 foots seas (in truth, I had never even set foot a\\ | ||
| - | sailboat before). After a couple more drinks we launched our cat and\\ | ||
| - | spent the next 10 minutes trying to figure out how to go upwind\\ | ||
| - | while the entire beach crew watched and waited for any sign that I\\ | ||
| - | might have a clue as to what I was doing. I finally figured out that\\ | ||
| - | I could move to either side easily and since the dock was on my\\ | ||
| - | right, I cut over the ropes of the swimming area and yelled for\\ | ||
| - | people to get the hell out of my way. Once in motion, this sailing\\ | ||
| - | thing was easy to master and soon I was able to head out to the open\\ | ||
| - | water and out of the sight of the hotel staff. For the next 3 days,\\ | ||
| - | I would drink, snorkel, drink, read, drink, sail, eat jerk chicken,\\ | ||
| - | drink some more, sail again, and then retire to my room to get\\ | ||
| - | cleaned up for more drinking and eating. I really enjoyed my time on\\ | ||
| - | the water while learning how to sail. My only disappointment about\\ | ||
| - | this trip was that it took 4 days before someone offered to sell me\\ | ||
| - | some pot and we were both standing in neck deep water at the time. I\\ | ||
| - | pictured soggy pot, matches and papers so I declined the offer. The\\ | ||
| - | pot could have added a new twist to my sailing skills.\\ | ||
| - | Our return trip was uneventful and I am ready to head back out into\\ | ||
| - | the bay just as soon as I lose this extra 10 lbs. I gained in just\\ | ||
| - | one week.\\ | ||
| - | Larry G. | ||
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