Highway to hell!

I know it feels like forever since my last post but with no access to the internet there is not much I can do about. I try to make up for it by getting you all up to date on what has been going on. Well Sunday I arrived on the island of Trinidad and as soon as I got off the plane I had an event to attend. It was a young Olympics kinda thing and it was fun to watch after sitting on a plane for two hours. After the finals of the tug-a-war it was time to head south to where I would be staying for the first three night of my visit. King Henry as I call him was a super nice guy in his late 50’s. His kids are all grown up and moved away so it was the bachelor pad since Henry was not married. No time to do much Sunday except sleep after the long day of traveling so I went to bed early.

Monday was a public holiday in Trinidad so everyone was off work and school was out. For me it was going to be one of the few total free days I had while on this trip. I was asked by a few folks if I wanted to spend the day with them on their boat for the day. Of course I had to say yes. The boating area of Trinidad is towards the North of the Island so it was about a 2 hours drive up the freeway to the boat yard. Sorry folks I am not pulling any punches on this one. Trinidad is #&^%i9ng nuts. The drive scared the @%&# out of me. 160 kmph is way to fast for me. For those who have a hard time changing kmph into mph just take 2/3 of 160 and that is kinda right. Now you see what I am talking about. So I did make it to the docks alive and without wetting myself surprisingly. The drive was soon forgotten after a day spent out on the ocean on a large speed boat. I even get a chance to do a little driving. The water here is not like the super clear blue water of Barbados. It is kinda brown because the water from Amazon River mixes with the ocean south of Trinidad. It really was a great time out on the boat but soon it would be getting dark and we had to head back to the docks. We got all the gear put away just in time because I was then able to take some great photos of the evening sky. Just before we went to leave a friend of one of the drivers I was with called to tell us that it would be better off just to stay where we were for the time being due to the traffic. You see, it was a holiday like I said and the whole island had come north for the day. When we final did start driving back traffic was unreal. It was like trying to leave a WVU game. Here is the thing though, when people in Trinidad get tired of sitting in traffic they just drive in the on coming traffics lane at high speeds I must add. You see the cops here don’t care and if you do get pulled over the fine is $20TT which is like $3 U.S. So the group I was with had enough of the traffic and decided to put over on the side of the road and have a few drink until the traffic thinned out. Please no more drinks I thought to myself. Side not, there are NO DUI laws in Trinidad. I had only 4 beers all day but the people driving had more then I even care to count. So against my better judgment after the cars started moving again we got back in the cars to finish the hour of driving we had left. So on the way home I had to take a xanex. 160kmph again but this time it was being done by a guy who had been drinking and still was while driving for the last 6 hours.. Shit I was freaking out! Thanks god I made it home… Damn after that I got to be more careful I what I get into down here… So that was my Monday!