Category: Things I’ve Learned
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Another Way Jamaica Has Bent My Mind
A few years ago I wrote a post about the many ways that Jamaica has bent my mind. Well this morning after waking up and spending an hour of ridiculousness running around the house I realized that Jamaica has done it again. The house where I live in Jamaica is a shared situation. It’s not…
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The Tethering Epiphany
This is the BIGGEST epiphany I’ve come across in Jamaica in years!! I’m sure there will be some of you who already know this and will just roll your eyes but there must be PLENTY of you who don’t know or else someone would have filled me in already considering the amount of times I’ve…
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A Few Lessons on “How To” in Jamaica
When I come home from Jamaica and look back through the hundreds of pictures I’ve taken I always run across a few that would make good lessons on how to do some simple things to make life a little easier on vacation. Here are some of those pics and a few funny little lessons on…
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The $400.00 U-Turn in Jamaica
Serves me right for not visiting the north coast of Jamaica in over a year but seriously, it’s only been one year and three months since I ventured away from the south coast and visited Ocho Rios. I’ve known about the new super-highway in Jamaica since it opened but because I’ve been hiding out in…
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The Night the Lights Went Out on Jamrock
One week ago this evening (April 17, 2016) I was eating dinner in my villa with a few Jamaican friends when the lights inside slowly dimmed and then went completely out. This is nothing really out of the ordinary in Jamaica. There are often brief power outages in random areas and pretty much everyone is…
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Bet You Can’t Answer These Jamaican Questions
Since you’re all just coming out of a long Easter weekend with (hopefully) relaxed and fresh minds I’m posting this to mess that all up for you! I’ve always considered myself pretty knowledgeable about most things Jamaican so I was a little thrown off when I tried this new app and realized I don’t…
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Just Like Chris Brown…..
The same as Chris Brown and Jordin Sparks had “No Air”, if I was a singer I could surely sing about no water with as much soul. Because for the first six days of my last trip NO WATER was the name of the game and it’s insane how this one thing that we take…
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Crazy the Crocodile
In this story I’m not sure who is crazier:Â Us for standing five feet from a wild crocodile, the man with the chicken in his hands or the actual crocodile whose name is Crazy. **All photos by Brenda Kadlec-Debnam** A couple of years ago I quickly featured this lone crocodile in a random…