Anguilla Villa

Anguilla Villa

I was walking back from the Blowing Point Ferry when I passed this Villa; I would call it a some apartments along the road. They are building, developing and creating villas, sounds better or more sophisticated than Apartments almost anywhere on this Island. I think they are looking for the view. This is an ok view, not a good view.

Another great photo, seems nice, I am sure if you went to the opposite side you can see a little better view. Not what you think though.

The entrance to the Villa.. hehehe

This is the lot to the left of the Villas; you can see the yellow building in the rear of the photo.

I think this is close to the view they are trying to sell, it is not very close to this view.

This is the house across the street.

To say the least, you could be sold anything in the Caribbean, especially with an internet, made to lease, made as in instructed. MAI Appraisal - Made As Instructed website.

Anguilla Villa

Anguilla Jail or Prison

Anguilla Jail or Prison

I was walking down near the offshore banks, saw nothing that said - Private Banking - and happened to view a very high and obnoxious looking fence. I asked some man if this was a prison, he said yes. Anguilla is like a country, however not a country, but it has a need as any country to store the criminals. Maybe they take them offshore bandits and put them here.

Anguilla Tropical Agriculture

Anguilla Tropical Agriculture

The guy on the right is Andre Samuel and the one on the right is his friend Sheldon Richardson. Hope I got that correct. Well, Andre walked me around this Agricultural project here on Anguilla. A very bright man, studied in Florida something to do with the same, is working I believe in the Agriculture office across from these fields here in the Valley of Anguilla.

This device is somehow sucking in the fertilizers and putting into the plastic pipes that are being pump in a circular path over the crops being grown. They are both irrigated with water and fertilized at the same time. It is a drip system.

Here the plants are growing out of the hold put in the top of the plastic; Andre said it is best to have the pipes of flat drip hose under the plastic.

Example of the flat drip hose purchased and dropping drops of water into the holes spaced for crops. I am told they can grow more than one rotation of crops in this fashion with the same plastic. Note the white is supposed to be better in the tropical areas as it reflects the sun.

The water is pumped from a 100 foot well, although the water table is only maybe less than 20 feet. It is circulated and recycled in a way; the water that does not drip out of the hose is run through again until all the water is places into the soil.

The fertilizer server

This is a black mesh put over and area where they are growing lettuce, I believe for shade and to stop moths. Not so much the moth, however to stop the caterpillars that would eat the lettuce.

The sign and telephone number of the Agriculture department here in Anguilla, the office where Andre works.

He has the proper education I believe to take to Niger to help me assess the problems with Malnutrition.

Gumbs in Anguilla

Gumbs in Anguilla

This is Hutson Gumbs, the taxi driver called him a Historian. He is the owners of my Guesthouse the Casa Nadine�s here on the Island of Anguilla. My 20 dollars live with the locals or live more with workers that came from other islands guesthouse.

Hutson Gumbs

I have met Hutson, I met a man in St Martin called Fatso Gumps or Gumbs, I am getting confused,  that rents cars, I seen a road near Blowing point here on Anguilla called something Gumbs.

(Mistake in spelling)
 I just realized Forrest Gump is the name of the Tom Hanks movie where I have heard this name.

Nonetheless, Hutson is a class act, can tell you the skinny on the island of Anguilla, I do not think he cares about money. He is just a good man enjoying life and hanging around.

I walked over to the graveyard close to the guesthouse, and look at some graves.

The first one I look at is a Gumbs, what a big name on this Island. I really enjoyed learning about the Gumbs, as this is a culture of it owns, a family, been here a long time. Make sure he tells you the story about William Gumbs, the Sharks, and the decision of William Gumbs in 1850 to marry Catherine Flemings while swimming to save his life.

 

Shoal Bay Anguilla

Shoal Bay Anguilla

Shoal Bay East

This is Shoal Bay East on the island of Anguilla.

I am trying my best to take photos of the beautiful people on the planet in Bikinis. This has been a major project in the Caribbean so far, this place is not a paradise for single men. The fat one in the back is ridiculously easy to find or old people.

This is East Shoal Bay, not West Shoal Bay, I believe this is the most popular beach on Anguilla and if you need to say you were here, this is the name of the beach you NEED to be on or very close. There is lined up a lot of something�s on the beach.

This is an Umbrella Beach it has many umbrellas full of older types, richer types, lying under them. It does have a dry stretch of maybe never get wet sand. A beach needs to have sand that does not get wet with when the tide comes in or out, this helps to keep the sand type fleas down. The problem with this beach if there is any is the claiming of areas by the resort behind the beach area. This can be a very annoying attribute to a beach when they are private or to be used in front of the resort only.

The Water is blue, however not calm on the day I visited, and some reef or rock structures just off the beach. This is not a baby beach; it is not the best for children. It is not a bay beach, or a circular beach. This is an ok beach, nothing extremely spectacular about the beach. You cannot just go set your lawn chair or beach chair in the water and relax. The drop from the top to the water is too quick; however, this is not a beach about beaches. It is a luxury beach, a beach where you can say to the ones in the know, the very special aware people. I was staying on East Shoal Bay beach.

I would call it a pay-to-play beach. You have to prove in a country club mentality you are rich enough to be here. This is good though if you are Brad Pitt maybe, because you can be safer that the rich people try to be classier and do not swoon down on you and try to capture your photo.

I tend to think that the Brad Pitts and such would be in Crocus bay next to me, there is a large bay, and every day a large one or two Powered Yacht comes into the bay. IF he or she famous person wanted, they could fly an airport, get on a power yacht, cruise into one of the bays and park, Get out and go to the beach because it is empty.

East Shoal bay is maybe full of tourist that can come every half hour from St Martin by ferry to say they were here.

French girls, I had to ask them for directions to be sure, the only lookers on the beach seem to be imported from the Island of St Martin only 18 minutes away by Ferry.

Madeariman Restaurant or Bar

This is my image of a beach side bar, or restaurant, a very good one, allows you to sit in front it says if you drink or use the facilities. It is directly down from the main drive entrance and to me is in the center or what action there is on East Shoal Bay, this is not a big and busy beach. This is Anguilla, pay to play luxury, only the old can afford to be here and they just do not come to the beach as much as you could believe if you lived on a beach.

I would give this beach and 9 for privacy, a 5 for girls, a 9 for quality of sand, a 5 for shape of the beach, and a 6 for the distance between the resort and the water.

East Shoal Bay has some swimming pools, this is needed on this beach as it is a little windy and the sand blows. The palm or coconuts are missing, Anguilla is totally lacking in the Palm Trees hanging over the water. The palm trees are good for shade, cool off the sand and create nature and views. I am not sure where the sun sets.

I was looking on the map of the Lonely Planet as best I can tell at 18 degrees above the equator the Shoal Bay East it would be better to be on Sandy Ground or in the Sandy Ground area of Anguilla for sunsets. There are all sorts of factors in building a home, I am not sure a person really thinks when they buy. I was a real estate broker; they will drop millions and not have good counsel.

The sun, the rotation of the sun around the planet. The orientation of the beach, the winds coming of the ocean, sometimes it is cold, sometimes helps to keep mosquitoes down, there are numerous factors need to be considered for me to spend a million dollars.

Shoal Bay East
East Shoal Bay
Shoal Bay East

Hehehe just did that Shoal Bay East here in Anguilla, typing for money; I have a web page to pay so I can travel the planet. Nothing noble about it, I like to go to beaches of the planet and look at bikinis.

Anguilla House Naming

Anguilla House Naming

In the area where I am, located are the more traditional or you could say historical type homes of Anguilla. Many have names on the homes. I am curious as to the reason why, I have not seen house numbers, this could be a way for the older homes to receive mail. I need to check, I do not remember seeing any way to have the mail delivered.

The Hope Cottage House, one of the homes with the name.

Hibiscus House another one with a name on the House in Anguilla, part of the history, and Anguilla Architecture.

Caribbean Food

Caribbean Food

This is a photo of the Peanut Butter on the shelf in the Super Market down the street from me in Anguilla. Peanut butter is one of them foods that annoy Europeans; they will say comments about Peanut butter, however then eat the Chocolate Nutella a shelf above. I found some Combos Cracker and Cheese, the big bag the other day here in Anguilla. This is a food I cannot buy around the world, and if for some reason possible, the prices is crazy. I saw a Totinos Pizza also; the foods being sold here in the Caribbean are almost the same in nature to the USA. The market is so much larger in Central and South America, I think the executives of the USA companies maybe come down here, see the shelves, then push to be allowed to come and sell American products. I think people like to do business where they like to be.

Busta Banana Soda, I was asking for the Orange, then realized it was Banana, so this girl says to try. It is good, made in Trinidad. A person from Trinidad described Trinidad as the New York City of the Caribbean.

Boss Captain Sir

Boss Captain Sir

I am trying to understand why labor-working people in some countries call me Boss or Captain, the Sir makes sense, and then Mister is annoying. In the country of India as well as here in the Caribbean, the locals will say hello in a manner more or less like,
- Hey Boss - or
- Hey Captain -

I am going into the French area of St Martin to live, it will be interesting to here what they say, if one uses a word like that in French, maybe the word - Patron, - I know they use the word Patron in Spanish when I am in Central or South America; it is more or less the substitute for owner.

The relationships between people, although in the USA is trying to be, pretending to be the same is constantly being defined. First Class seat on planes, Five Star Hotels, CEO, Mr. Jones, Sir, Ms or Mrs., Mr., all the various titles. A Medical doctor can be quite angry if you do not say, Dr Jones, or Doctor Jones, or Professor Jones.

When I taught English in Peru, it was impossible to live with a person if I told them I was teaching, they would call me - Maestro. - this means teacher in Spanish.

I was looking or trying to look up the names for slave master or the straw bosses that would run a plantation. Words are part of the culture, it defines the culture. Food is also a defining part of culture. I can learn more about where a person originally came from by their foods and words than by what the person knows about their origins. Facial structure, eyes, length of chin, nose, color or hair is all clues to me of the ancestry of the persons. Height is good to, color of skin; the USA person for some reason has a browner color to the skin than the European.

Walking
The way a person walks is a sure method of knowing the country. I was watching the French on the Island of St Martin walk yesterday, the style is smooth, does not bounce up and down.

Here is a monument or Memorial next to the Cable and Wireless or close to the Cable and Wireless telephone office in Anguilla. A memorial to Princess Diana the girl that was killed in a car accident.

This is serious stuff to me; I think Princess Diana is a good person, not quite up there with Sister Theresa that died at the same time. However, here is a person that is by title or the title to me says, I am - Culturally Superior - to you. I am the princess, I wonder what person would say if a person wanted to be called - KING -. We are in the wrong country, Anguilla to be doing this type of memorial crap to a Princess; to me I would feel it is a slap in the face to the demographics of the Island of Anguilla.

Caribbean Hotels Guesthouse List

I have found a very good list of Guesthouses or Hotels in the Caribbean on this page.

http://www.hotelink.com/caribb/caribb.htm

Hard to say if they are good or bad, however this page is showing all price ranges and telephone numbers. I have some clue now of some cheaper ones in Anguilla, and Sint Maarten.

Ferry from Anguilla to Sint Maarten St Martin

Ferry from Anguilla to Sint Maarten St Martin

IF I go from Anguilla I guess I arrive at the French side or Sint Maarten from this pier or ferry jetty, dock, etc whatever you call it, is maybe a boat to St Barts another Frenchie Island and supposed to be one of the most expensive Islands in the Caribbean.

There is supposed to be a one dollar, probably U.S. dollar bus that is just away from the pier where I will arrive in Sint Maarten that will go to Philipsburg on the Dutch side. This dock is supposed to have a boat to Saba.

The LP or Lonely Planet has a conflict; it shows my ferry going to Marigot on the French side or the Sint Maarten side. Then it shows a little dotted line going to Saba or a ferry going to this Island. Plus from the same dock there is one to St Barts or whatever you call the place, St Baths, Saint Barts, etc.

This is a recon mission, my goal is to look for Guesthouses on the Island, whereby I can stage my travel or airplane trips to the USA or maybe Saba, Statia, St Barts or maybe Antigua. I want to stay on the Island; however, I hate to give up a good Guesthouse just to be on a tourist Island. I have to weigh my wants, I like the culture around me here, and I have learned more about the history and culture of the Caribbean here with Hutson at Casa Nadines than anywhere else in the Caribe. However, for sure the Island of Sint Maarten is better for boats and planes. It is maybe a gate in and out of the Caribbean. The ferry is supposed to take 18 minutes, a fast or short trip.

Hutson and the LP do not agree or do not seem to agree, this is interesting in itself, a local, responsible Hutson can or maybe will know more than the LP, however he probably has never been to Saba or Statia and I doubt St Barts. Therefore, he may or may not know, however he is a responsible man, therefore hard to say.

This is a great example of a before I leave blog post, I have before, during and after type post. There is incongruence between the posts, only after the trip is anything clear.

Travel Theft Worry

Travel Theft Worry

I will go by Ferry from Anguilla to St Martin or Sint Maaten the name of this Island or country is very difficult for me to spell.

I am worried about leaving my room for 10 hours and the owner knows I am leaving for 10 hours. I have told Hutson Gump the owner of the Casa Nadine�s that I am leaving.  He is a very good person, helped me to understand how to go to the ferry, the cost of taxi, the cost of ferry, when to leave, how to get back and better yet. He explained the two docks or places where I can catch another Ferry to the Islands of Saba or Statia, also Saint Barts.

Ok, this is now known by the building, the - White Boy - is going away for the whole day and will be on another Island. The door is a great door, deadbolt lock, you would have to have the key to get in the room, there is no way to enter this room without a key or kicking the door in, I suppose a person can kick in the door.

I feel 98 percent sure Hutson is very honest, he seems on the up and up, good guy, however I do not normally tell anyone I am leaving for a whole day. I make everyone in the hotels believe I would come back in just a short while, could be back anytime, I do not give them knowledge of my whereabouts.

I feel safe; however, this is against my standard operating procedures of travel. I am violating a prime directive rule for me. I am telling the owner I will be gone for 10 hours and cannot just pop back to the hotel.

Resort versus Guesthouse - Hutson does not clean the rooms, I think he is the only person that has a key, if I was in a resort here in Anguilla, I would be locking everything down very good as the resorts pass around the keys, maids, owners, staff, etc, nothing is safe from the inspection of workers. I feel much safer here than in a resort, they could blame on anyone if my stuff is stolen, Hutson is going to feel he is the only person, therefore I am safer. Hutson is a great guy.

Anguilla Country Club

Anguilla Country Club

I am still here at what I have formulated in my mind as the country club Island of the Caribbean. Across the street from me in a Restaurant called the Koal Keel they the play Bridge I believe on some morning. It is humorous to sit inside the workers quarters (Joke) of the Casa Nadine�s and see all the white folk roll into to sit around tables. This also happens every night as the try to be fine dining looks like it happens. I keep hoping there arrive the younger daughters so I could go over to the bar and snuggle up close to the bar and talk. However the age set seem strictly old school country club, not much on any nouveau rich young, jet setters to me.

I am making a joke, I have no idea how these people made their money, however Anguilla is not to me a party island. This is great for me, because I do not drink and it helps me avoid the annoying tourist group, Bob Marley, Smoke-a-joint, wanna be rich, however not rich tourist groups that are roaming the Caribbean looking to be or do something seen on TV.

There is maybe around 12,000 people on the Island, it is difficult to know for sure, I have no idea how these people pay their bills in Hurricane season. The whole Caribbean seems to be having a Katrina Hurricane induces fear, the world is full of Hurricanes, this year there will be another Hurricane mentality. This may really hurt the tourism if it does exist during this time of year.

Country Club, they have a golf course here also, I was reading in a newspaper I purchased for two EC - East Caribbean Dollars called - The Anguillian-  that the Anguillian Golf Association had a meeting, some 25 persons showed up, I would hate to think what the green fees are on this island. Whatever the case it is a big contrast to see the photos of the people in the Anguillian Golf Association juxtaposed  to the Blanchard Boys being presented a check by Stephanie Brooks who works for the Cell Phone company of Digicel.

The Blanchard Boys organized the reggae group by the name off - Morgan Heritage - to play soon in I guess on the island of Anguilla.

I have read this article four times trying to figure out what they are inferring, because they did not just come out and explain. I thought I would just type this in and would be simple.

I think, I am not positive.
The Blanchard Boys - two younger men organized a show.
Digicel I am 99 percent sure of is a cell company that competes with Wireless and Cable or Bmobile, the one I have sponsored the event or reggae show.

Quote:
-  world�s hottest reggae group Morgan Heritage -

This is one of them articles you have to know some background to understand, I guess the I am confused with the word heritage, as it seems to speak of history, so I keep focusing on the idea of history.

Morgan Heritage seems to be the reggae group on tour called the - 2006 Full Circle Tour -

The groups sings songs by the name of
- Tell Me How Come -
- Girls from Around the World -

The show will be on Easter Weekend on the specific date of April 16, 2006.

Understanding is a difficult proposition in my mind,

Thanks for 110 Electricity and not 220 or my the water I am heating for a shower, while I typed would be boiling as I focused very hard on the article and forgot the water was heating.

Reggae organizers and on the next page is the Golf Association. Tiger Woods is going to have some competition coming from this island with all the new millionaires arriving from selling off large tracts of land to rich people from the USA or United Kingdom.

- Researcher Wander -

MORGAN HORSE
 U.S. horse for hunting: a black, bay, brown, or chestnut horse with a full mane and tail, short deep body, and slender legs, belonging to a U.S. breed popular for hunting, jumping, and recreation

MORGAN CITY
city in southeastern Louisiana, on the Intracoastal Waterway, west of Houma and south of Baton Rouge.
Population: 12,703 (2000)

MOVIE
The Miracle of Morgan�s Creek, motion picture about a young woman who marries a soldier but cannot remember him or the wedding because she was drunk at the time.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
- Morgan, Sir Henry (1635?-1688), Welsh buccaneer, born in Llanrhymny. He is said to have been kidnapped at Bristol when a boy and sold as a servant on the West Indian island of Barbados. After a time he worked his way to Jamaica, where he joined the buccaneers, adventurers who preyed on Spanish settlements and shipping; by 1666 he was in command of his own vessel. Commissioned by the governor of Jamaica to carry on hostilities against the Spanish, Morgan captured and sacked settlements in Cuba, Panama, and Venezuela. He was brought to England in 1672 to be tried for plundering Panama City after a treaty had been signed between England and Spain. Convinced of his loyalty, King Charles II knighted Morgan and appointed him lieutenant governor of Jamaica. - (2)

Maybe, I hope, the groups is named after a Pirate by the name of Morgan who as I read about in the book by the name of - Caribbean - by James A. Michener. This book gave or presented a interesting historical background of the Caribbean. This is the History I am sad is missing or lacking in my travels.

Slavery, almost the only persons on these islands to start.
Pirates,  groups of men in ships or the first yact cruisers of the island groups.
Forts, Boats, Ships of early transportation.
Indentured servants brought from India.
Spices, foods, agro-tourism, cotton, tobacco, etc.

Too much on how to be rich, wanna be rich, wanna look rich, I can find the sagging mentality of the Golf Club Association, I can find the sloppy hair look of the Rasta world, however the essential, history is difficult to understand.

There is this Aguillian Trust, I think it is a trust to preserve historical buildings, I have been walking around, I found one of them. I am in the Historical part or some part of the Valley called or near Crocus bay. I am trying to take photos of some real interesting wood building with various water capturing apparatus on them, plus interesting windows that help fight the storms. A little higher built up maybe, they seem to have some form of crawl space, or they are sometimes elevated. I am trying to surmise which ones are old and which ones are newer from their design, location, etc, I suppose maybe if I go into this trust building I can figure it out, maybe the person in there will not give me the same reception as the not so friendly tourism board office. I really do not like this chip on shoulder mentality when all I am doing is trying to learn about the countries of the Caribbean. It makes me want to leave.

Pirates of the Caribbean Movie with Johnny Depp was made or parts were filmed in SVG, St Vincent and the Grenadines, or in the city of Kingstown, it should have been a wake up call for the Caribbean to see there is more than just wanna be rich life to sell.

JFK Airport April 10

JFK Airport April 10
Today is Thursday March 2, 2006

I am in Anguilla, I will somehow fly to the USA around April 1, however I am trying to have an exit strategy before I enter.

New York to Budapest 425 U.S.A. Dollars one-way.

The world is becoming simpler for me, I am so happy. I just booked my ticket from JFK Airport in New York, New York, USA to Budapest, Hungary. The world is a little complicated sometime; buying plane tickets in and out of the USA is one of my most difficult projects of travel. However slowly I am learning, this person Marshal at cut-rate travel is excellent, an air consolidators he has now helped me a few times to buy tickets.

Marshall the name of man at Cut Rate Travel
ONLY INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS
847-405-0575 USA telephone number

He is a machine, he is efficient, precise, and I do not have to deal with many silly I-do-not-understand questions. He only asks the essential questions. Can I get a better price, maybe I can save 00 U.S.A. dollars if I was in the USA, and could monitor the internet, had a mailing address, lived in New York city, had a way to get dropped off at the airport and many other problems to solve, however for sure Marshall is worth his weight in gold.

I am not always clear if he wants me to talk or blog about him, it is hard to say, he told me one time no problem, however many person do not always believe or realize that some persons want to spread the wealth. I only recommend people; I do not receive free anything from anyone.

Anguilla Hotel

Anguilla Hotel
Thursday March 2, 2006

I just stopped in to the Auguilla Tourism office.
Not a friendly place.

The world would be a better place if they were friendly, if this office is not friendly, then were do I go from here.

I almost never stop into the tourism office any country I would visit. The reasons are varied, I stopped at a Tourist Information booth in Barbados and it was really a Time-Share sales office. To visit a tourism office or the Anguilla Tourist Board or the Anguilla Tourism offices I have about two major ways of finding them, the Lonely Planet will normally list the tourism Offices or the Anguilla Tourism offices or the Anguilla Tourist Board in their guidebook. Of course the next way it to search on the internet.

This normally can be a possible problem, people similar to me, that have web pages know how to more or less hook persons into an idea that we are a tourism office. I do not do this, however I am collecting all the Tourism Board Office on the planet presently and hope to write them all if possible.

We have a project, collect all the Hotels on the planet and anywhere else a person would sleep, a very large project. Thence in this project, it behooves me to stop into an office I really have no desire to enter.

Anguilla Tourism
I have had research done that tells me what people search for in reference to a country. I can see that Anguila Tourism receives about 119 search requests per month, and Auguilla Tourist Board receives about 74.

I am collecting the Hotel information, therefore a person could see why there are so many hotel-booking sites on the net, and this gets about 1231 searches per month for Anguilla Hotel. The Anguilla Hotel search is interesting, it gets only about 1231, however some 54,305 person type in just the word Anguilla.

The Hotel industry normally has a very large stake in promotion or convincing the government to promote the country, therefore they do not have to pay for the advertisement. Then they try to arrange for their Anguilla Hotel to be in all the brochures. It is good for the country and good for the hotel, however in the end, if there is justice the tax money comes from the hotels to pay to promote Anguilla Hotels by way of an Anguilla Tourism Office or Anguilla Tourist board.

I am having fun learning about my website; it is like this, the word Anguilla Hotel up there, I am sure many companies are interested in the phrase.

However, the question is this, will a Hotel Owner search for the site, click on this link, and attempt to learn about information gathering.

Nonetheless, the bottom line is the Anguilla Tourism office is Caribbean rude normal, I keep trying to understand, I keep hoping the more I would pay in life the friendlier the world would become. Not in the Tourist office, I picked up the brochure, took some photos the other day.

Even though I do not stop into these offices, it is the one of the first impressions offered by a country, Anguilla gets a D-, it would get and F if it was closed and hard to find as many are.

It make my project so difficult to do, when what should be a great source of information is so difficult to use, she just pointed at the brochure, I asked about digital information, she says no. I asked for the manager and she said she was the manager. Chip on her shoulder as one of my friends explained.

This page was made to get the attention of a Hotel Owner.

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Remarkable Navigators

Remarkable Navigators

I am in awe of little, inspired by the strange, curious about everything, annoying obnoxious person, loved by few, hated by many, and sometimes respected for the wrong reasons.

Whom I respect and why I respect them has many paths for me to explore. I will respect a person a long time before I am sure why, only with continued introspection of myself, I can start to learn why I respect of fail to respect the person.

Genius is easy for me respect, genius coupled with intense sense of honesty and honor, bridging on a stupid nobility will make people climb this ladder. I find myself weak, humble, lacking, constantly failing to measure up to the expectations of myself. Only the comparisons I observe between myself and others enables me to continue. Without this comparison, I would deem myself a complete failure in life.

Comparing myself to Christopher Columbus I find myself an ant under his feet in the intellect, drive, ambition, ability to encompass all the variable, derive the essential information need, then the outrageous courage to make a decision. Extrapolations or maybe the word is prognostications of possible eventualities of decisions are mind staggering.

My collection point or capture location whereby I place all explorers.

http://www.hobotraveler.com/explorers.php

Making decisions, assessments, anticipations, and prognostications, is easy in hindsight, maybe in these is the cultural annoying comment.
- DEPENDS -
I despise this word, without a comment of explanation after the word; I start to instantly consider the person an idiot. Every opinion, every idea, ever comment on the planet to me is in someway, shape for form in some causal deterministic way dependant on something else. To ask an opinion and the person to say, depends is not an answer, it is nothing, translated it means to me. I know nothing, cannot tell you nothing, I should be saying.

- I do not know -

Sadly, they often do know, if and only if I push hard. What is the problem with the person that says depends is they are not Christopher Columbus; they will not make a 1 percent commitment to believe in their own opinions. They have zero respect for themselves, they feel to me as if they are so afraid of speculation they cannot move forward in the least. Fear of feeling more stupid.

I am in the birthplace of my culture, the starting point where after all these navigators came I my gene pool eventually followed. Someone had to be the first to jump across the pond, hope to land, and then die, almost or maybe believing they never found anything.

Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus

Darwin

Marco Polo

The more I study, the more or do the - Researcher Wander - The more I know, I know nothing. Humility or the need for humility is in endless need, however the bravery needed to take a stance, to make a decision today, not tomorrow, not with a around robin, literary license to lie, hide behind some politically correct phrase. To travel, to explore, means I make an evolving opinion, log in this opinion, decision, then prognosticate to endless degrees on what is known today and plan the future.

I have on my lap a computer, the size of a house a few years ago, databases, internet, access to the world�s information, however I am in a jungle of overwhelming questions and answers, and people who do not clarify. Chris, Ferd, Marco, Darwin, these boys maybe had paper, and were probably inventing many of their tools, fixing, wondering if they even worked as the went. Brave men.

In my - Researcher Wanderings -, I found this.

ISLAMIC PROBLEM
Encarta Encyclopedia Quote about Christopher Columbus

-Many of these events were driven by the centuries-long conflict between Christians and Muslims, followers of the religion known as Islam. -

I was looking at a stupid mental midget sign about a Christian Crusade here on the Island of Anguilla where there are about six photos of violence on the planet. The caption says something like - Signs of our times - Inferring or trying to say that the world is in bad shape, I am 100 percent sure the world is getting safer every year, countries I could not visit 9 years ago are opening their doors. China for instance is encouraging tourism, Libya is opening, Iraq is busted open, the Silk Trails are opening again, it is becoming possible travel many places.

The war in Iraq has about 2500 Americans dead, very serious, however in the history of war, just a bad day for many wars, however two or more years for this, maybe more of a police action.

The so-called Islamic Problem the world is facing today is not to me a problem of today, it has always been a problem, but in reality we are talking and living together, this is a good sign.

On the other hand, Columbus also was able to wander around in this area without the native killing him, not that simple, however more or less a lot of hatred is learned, not natural.

Anguilla Airport to Guesthouse

Anguilla Airport to Guesthouse

GPS Coordinates for Anguilla Airport
18 Degrees 12.410 North
063 Degrees 03,147 West
105 Feet Elevation
I walked to the airport again more or less by accident, just started walking and that is where I ended up. However, this time I had my Magellan Explorist 100 GPS or Global Positioning Satellite toy with me.

Now I am back trying to remember how to put these little degree marks into my website, I am able to type them in this page, however if I blog by email, or blog on blogger.com I believe they appear as funny marks or characters.

The distance from HERE:

GPS Coordinates for Anguilla Airport

18 Degrees 12.410 North
063 Degrees 03,147 West
105 Feet Elevation

To here is 1.6 Miles

GPS Coordinates for Casa Nadines Guesthouse in Anguilla
18 Degrees 13.152 North
063 Degrees 03.720 West
83 Feet Elevation

I really enjoy figuring out this type of organization, I do not like entering or figuring out how to navigate from one point to another, as it seems insanely boring. However, I enjoy learning a way to capture data; I say capture, as data or information is an allusive type of information. There is no end to the ways of losing it, inaccurately logging it in, or the ability to be sloppy.

I believe I am very good, I know I am very good at entering data; checking, double-checking, quadruple checking my information. I used to layout with a transit 100,000 square foot building for large construction jobs, one mistake would cost thousands of dollars. I do not remember making any mistakes in two years or layout for concrete work.

This information above could be used in this way, a person gets off a plane, and they already have created a coordinate to the Casa Nadines Guesthouse. The person turns on the GPS and lets it warm up, track a few satellite, this takes about 5 minute or less, then they can get their bearings. With the GPS toy they can then figure out, it is close enough to walk, do I want to walk, which direction do I walk, and then make a choice. Now a good map would or could stop all this deliberation, however a map is many times missing what I want, has what you want, for sure it has a 5 Star Hotel on the map, however for the 20 Dollars hotel, nobody seems to care, a few guidebooks, however, generally it appears the little people like me on the planet are going to have to capture this data and enter it for the cheapies hoboes to share.

It is very easy to find anything if you PAY your way there, one of the arts of travel is to figure it out. 1.6 Miles as I walk at about 2.4 miles per hour as I have learned with my GPS means it would take maybe around one-half hour for me to walk to the Casa Nadine Guesthouse. I am paying myself now about 16 U.S. Dollars and hour to walk. There are very good reasons not to walk and one is the risk of getting robbed with everything you own on your back, for me this is a lot of money, computer, cameras, hard drives, memorabilia, cash, etc. However, 90 percent of backpacker probably has less than 500 Dollars worth of hard to replace gear.

Anguilla Offshore Living

Anguilla Offshore Living

I am wondering if these people in the Caribbean know they can live in 80 percent of the planet, outside of the Caibbean and have five servants that cost 10 dollars per day per servant.

1. Cleaning
2. Gardener
3. Nanny
4. Cook
5. Gopher

Anguilla Offshore Living

I believe there is always a desire to create a colony of the same culture, within another culture. This is normal development of culture, however to leave the USA and to not capitalize on the disparity between wages seems to me ludicrous, leave the womb, then pay double, I do not see the point.

Travel Newsletter Sent from Anguilla

I am sending, hopeing it goes, my newsletter from Anguilla, mostly though pictures from Bequia and Babados

http://www.hobotraveler.com/newsletterhobo192insert.shtml

Counting my Transportation

Counting my Transportation

I have been trying to create a way to log in my transportation from place to place, or from hotel to hotel. I have or less learned or figured out there is always a beginning, and a few middles and then the end trip.

This may seem mundane, however it is easy to say,
- Go to this hotel.-

However to explain how you got from the airport to the hotel, or from the bus, taxi, train, bus and all the transfers is not as easy as it seems. I am trying to create a log in sheet with all the questions needed, they I could make copies of this sheet. Carry it, log in the types of transportations, prices, names of companies as I go, therefore I would not forget. Remembering the exact cost is difficult, I more or less remember in dollars, however I have trouble remembering the price in local currencies. Then I sometime do not remember the dollar price. I have been doing this or trying to create this maze of questions from my start in Bogota, Colombia on January 19, 2006, aagh, I have only been in the Caribbean about 40 days, it feels like many months.

Well, the goal is this, give the evaluation sheets for

1. Transportation.
2. Hotels
3. Tourist Attractions
4. Airports
5. Airlines

Etc and so forth to a person, I will be the test person. I will take them, fill them out, then log them into a form on a page, it will then blog the results. This may seem annoyingly complicated, however when you are not on a tour, the transportation is not figured out. I am constantly moaning to myself on why does the guidebook leave out the best way to travel from the airport to the hotels. I know always there is a taxi, almost always, however without someone telling me the price, I feel like I have to work hard to learn. Airport taxis can cost more than the hotel. I paid 12 dollar U.S. for a taxi from the Anguilla Airport to the Casa Nadines, and now pay 20 dollars per night for the room. This makes zero value sense, the cost of the taxi would be fair at 4 dollars. I could have walked easily if I would have had a super light backpack. BUT, being I had no idea how to get there, I 95 percent of the time let the taxi figure out my first hop in a country or city. This first hop is the most difficult, after that I have time, no backpack, and can walk around asking questions easier. Nobody, including the information counter will tell a person normally a cheap way to get out of the airport. I need to ask about 5 people on the plane until one will tell me the cheap way, they normally think, let him pay tourist rates and tell you the expensive way, or they have a car and have never taken a taxi in their home city.

Nonetheless, I am creating and filling in a database of stop, starts, middles, ends to transport, I have a spot for the GPS coordinates and have tracked most of them. If I would have had the GPS coordinates for the Casa Nadines, I think it would have told me the distance. Hmmmm. I think I can calculate now and play the opposite way. I have the airport coordinates.

I was wrong, I do not have the coordinates of the airport, I walked out and instantly got in a taxi, no time to wander around. This is the part that is difficult, I have to fight, try to slow the taxi people down, they are grabbing my bags, trying to push me in a taxi, hard to slow myself down and keep on the right perspective when people are trying hard to help, too hard. However normal anywhere on the planet.

Directions: This is about asking for directions, as anyone that travel knows, directions can be extremely bad. A map is best,hard to have with you, however when there is no map, a well explained set of directions is good. However I find people leave out things like - I started at the bus stop down the street, or one leg of the trip. This one transit missing breaks the chain, therefore a person is standing around trying to figure out the next leg of the trip.

Anguilla Hawks Win

Anguilla Hawks Win
February 26, 2006 Baseball Tournament

I am not sure, it is hearsay, I asked some tourist, local, Westernized man, who seems to have a child playing the baseball game. He rather indicated the Hawks Won the baseball tournament on Sunday the 26 of February 2006 on a baseball field near Crocus Bay in the country Island of Anguilla.

http://www.hobotraveler.com/192_67_anguilla-hawks-win.shtml

There was a bike race the same day, plus I spied some great bikini talent in the beach area of Crocus bay, all in that page or link.

Deja Vu

I was walking by this baseball field earlier in the day, stopped and took the photos below, then arrived back later in my accidental walk to the Valley Village or the Airport, and a view of the Bike race, all in a search for an internet caf�, which I did not find. Travel really does answer questions you did not know enough to ask.

The batter prior was a dreamer I believe, I noticed one of them Major League, USA like American Flags on the shoulder of the batter prior to this one, I pulled out my trusty 12X zoom Sony camera and was going to capture the moment. Missed the photo however had a great nostalgic moment. I played Little League Baseball, not may favorite sport, however for sure my fathers. I remember and think about a life so easy and simple in a world where all we wanted to do was chatter, listen to the ump say, batter up, and we wanted to hit it over the left field fence. In the end, mostly we just grounded out.

I am thinking whether these children will ground out in life or they will as their families are pushing presently make a home run. Not important really the home run or a ground out in life, however it is important they keep their lives as simple as a baseball tournament. I am hoping they follow all the great baseball heroes and not the gonga smoking hero of Bob Marley. I was viewing Monday the Black History people on the board in the Anguilla Library where I found I could use the internet. Many famous people from Martin Luther King to Sidney Portier and that girl in Cat Woman, Hale or something. I am amiss, I think one of the worst influences on the African origin person is Bob Marley, he in his wake is causing many a headache for parents as their children become Pot Smoking, sit around person and not men of - I have a dream -.

I have a dream about and am working on one to help the Malnutrition problem in Niger, I think, hope, can I get people like Oprah Winfrey involved, can I get the good of the cultures to help the less fortunate of the cultures. Can I learn how to spell Oprah without looking it up in my Encyclopedia Encarta?

These boys are serious, moving at a fast pace, they had a motorcycle and jeep following somehow as support. I walked by this area, I was culturally alone, my western culture was not in view here, big party going on maybe sponsored by the Cable and Wireless Cell Phone or telephone company. They seem to do lots of good for the Caribbean Islands. Western Culture - This is a way of hiding the fact I was the only white person in the middle of many black people, maybe I should say African origin. They were all cheering on the riders, I was lost, only being on the Island for a short while, and I was clueless where I was walking. Only going on a path, hoping I did not have to pay 10 Dollars U.S. for a taxi fare back.

Walked to the mostly deserted beach, while I was waiting for my room to be made available. The Casa Nadine is full, one girl was leaving at 2:00 and I needed to walk around until she left. I went to the beach in my long pant, shirt, luckily I had my Clive Cussler book in my cargo pants pocket, ready for boredom in the airports. However, it was great, laid under a dilapidated palm umbrella and read my book. Spied some good scenery on the beach, tried to take photos, it was a great day.

I think or feel the noise and traffic level going down has improved my mood. Bequia had too much of the Bob Marley syndrome, while Barbados was too Brit and way too much tourist and traffic for me, I am not found of the Brit Bar or make a pool area English Bar or Local on the other side of the plane mentality. Enough Lager Lots on the planet, this couple with the Canadian Flag wavers does not help.

Anguilla is a cultural paradise for me; I am surrounded in the Casa Nadine by other countries that have come here to work on the island of Anguilla. People from Trinidad, Dominica, various others I suppose, however I am living in a not-in-tourist bubble community however I can walk, hitchhike or hope to find a way to go to Shoal Beach where it is U.S. Dollars only and completely inside a tourist bubble. A great combination as I am in a place like my hometown where everyone waves and says hello, but I can go to a tourist bubble where everyone wants dollars.

Two U.S. Dollars for a Coca Cola in the tourist bubble.

Two East Caribbean Dollars for a Coca Cola in the Crocus Bay area.

There is always hope, life is good. This girl was wandering in and out of the water, I could not see here close enough on my screen to know if this picture would be close or far. I suppose I should look in the viewfinder and not the screen, maybe it will work as a telescope.

The hope is this, here is some rich, beautiful girl in a Bikini, there is this big Yacht in the bay, I am hoping she comes down rescues me from my poverty, makes me happy, rich for a day, puts me on this big yacht, takes me to a place far away. Later in the day she can drop me off on the beach, I can walk into the sunset knowing.

Life is good and the Hawks won!

I think I can use Anguilla as a base and take day trips by Ferry to other Islands, and not give up my home.

Caribbean Tour

Caribbean Tour

I am still in Geography 101, and I am positive I know Geography better than 99 percents of the planet. I had a lesson, I am still having a lesson, I will continue to have a lesson, I do not think I will ever stop.

Anguilla has a Spanish name maybe, however it mean an Eel, the big slippery long type, is part of an area divided up by the French, Spanish, British, USA, and Netherlands. It is a cluster of cultures, extremely abnormal on the planet. Ooops, I should say African also, this makes me frustrated and angry at myself. This area is 70 to 90 percent African, it is not correct in my sensibilities to ignore this fact, not an opinion.

I had a conversation with a man and women from Minneapolis yesterday, she was giving me a lesson in where to go and where not to go in St Maarten or Saint Maarten or Sint Maarten or Saint Maarten it goes on and on, however this is more or less the gist.

You have a Netherlands, Dutch or Holland side.

You have a French Side of this SAME Island.

I can take a ferry from Anguilla to this Island place with many name for 12 U.S. Dollars I believe, however not sure yet, the taxi to get to the Ferry would cost more than the Ferry.

This area of the world is convoluted, mixed, very small islands, however each has a specific nature, culture, maybe a race involved. What becomes even more confusing is the tourism reasons that have evolved. I am not clear, there seems to be a couple of groups.

Casinos allowed on Island versus Casinos not allowed Islands.
French full of rules Islands, versus the not full of rules (Maybe Dutch)
Cost of Hotels is very High versus maybe Mass Tourism Package Deals.

I am on Anguilla, this is an Island that would fit into the cost of the Hotels is very high, maybe to stop, no, the correct idea is to maybe create a sense of luxury. St Barts or Barths is I feel at this moment the same, they have very high prices to create that sense of exclusivity.

I am trying to learn how to travel to many locations. St Maarten French and Dutch side, this is easy. Then I have Saba, Saint Eustatius maybe Stat or Statia in common words, I am still trying to figure this out.

What is here is a cluster of maybe countries, elongated, arm length, however maybe a protectorate, autonomous region, Island country, something along them names or words that defines a location on the planet. The Sailors have a name, the Tourism industry has names, the locals have a name, the county that protects or administer has a name, and of course you have the Francophone - Anglophone problem. The Frenchie versus the English thingy, it is trying to my organizational skills to categorized or sub-categorize, there is no obvious pattern. It is the view you take, from a tour package point of view, from a Yacht point of view, or from a Language point of view.

I am 90 percent sure I should stay away from this subject when talking with anyone that has ever come here and traveled. Unless of course I want to get into a belittling conversation where the person I am talking with assumes they understand the area very well and talks down to me as if I do not understand. They will know maybe their viewpoint very well and will be talking very clearly from the Tourist point of view, and the travel agent sold me point of view. If I bleed over into the Sailor point of View, or the Columbus point of view, or maybe the Netherlands point of view I could annoy them as they could not see that this has something to do with it maybe.

I am not even close to understanding all the possible snapshots I could take of this area, however for sure the conversations have completely left out the blacks at this juncture. I am in a 100 percent black area of Anguilla, this is great for me, plus the room is only 20 U.S.A. dollars per night.

Yes, I am in a Eastern Caribbean Money area or a 50/50 area, the prices are in Eastern Caribbean Dollars, however they will take U.S. Dollar easily. This is another viewpoint, are you in an take U.S. money point of view or in a price the items in Eastern Caribbean point of view.

I did my research, found that Anguilla was an Eastern Caribbean money country and I could hold on to my money I received from the Bank Machine in St Vincent or Kingstown Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Yes, there is also the City versus the Country point of view, this map below shows all the cities, however when I blow up the one area the Island Countries start to take value as opposed to only the countries. It has to also do with Ferry or boats travel or they maybe newer form of Airplane Travel, as you like, maybe Ferry Terminals versus Airports.

MAP OF CITIES ON MAP (2)

This is pointing out a specific area or the area of Islands where I am located. Convoluted to understand, takes a lot of study to figure out, and maybe a nut to care. In the next view below as it get larger the city versus country perspective is change. It will be hard to find the city, however easier to see the country.

MAP CLOSER AND BLOWN UP WITH MORE OF COUNTRY VIEWPOINT

There are may words in this map, what to call the places becomes a lottery.

French
Netherlands
Dutch
Holland


Philipsburg City DISAPPEARED ON THE MAP
St Martin
Sint Maartin

Leeward Islands Netherlands (Saba St. Eustatius St. Maarten)
St. Maarten
Sint Maarten
Anguilla
Antigua
Antigua and Barbuda
Barbuda
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Caribbean
Caribbean islands
Caribbean Sea
Dominica
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe & Deps.(Marie Galante)
Leeward Islands French (St. Martin St. Barts)
Leeward Islands Netherlands (Saba St. Eustatius St. Maarten)
Martinique
Navassa Island (What is this?)
Netherlands Antilles
Nevis
Puerto Rico
Saba
Saint Kitts and Nevis
St. Barths
St. Eustatius
St. Kitts
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Maarten
St. Martin
Virgin Islands British (Tortola etc.)
Virgin Islands U.S. (St. John St. Thomas)
Virgin Islands UK
Virgin Islands USA
St Johns City
Saint Johns City
Sint Maarten

Caribbean Tour

I am having fun trying to learn where I am, it really does not matter, unless you are crazy enough to buy land or build a home in these areas. I would call it a throw away investment or a who cares I will blow the money to say I have a home here situation. I got picked up by a car yesterday here on Anguilla, if you walk they seem to stop and pick you up, the person lived on Shoal Bay, you have east and west, I think they was on Shoal Bay West, they must have went to Shoal Bay East to lay in the sun or to visit some bar or person. Nonetheless they picked me up and said they had came to Anguilla numerous times. Everyone is friendly, I think I am into the range of making money where the person no longer cares they have money, they are positive and tries to hide instead of the middle management put it in your face style.

These people have a home, come here like a snowbird in Indiana would go to Florida, however they landed in Anguilla. Hard to figure out, hard to understand, however they come here regularly. I personally believe is just a chance or happen to happen sort of thing. They started on one trip, then repeat and repeat, maybe start to visit a few more island however just stick to coming back to the same place because they enjoyed the place. Then because they are American they HAVE to buy, they cannot stop themselves, they feel this I need to BUY IT mentality. I cannot just visit, I have to buy it.

Not to me a good idea, you can come here, change, live high on the hog and not get married to the island.

I want to melt them

I want to melt them

I like to turn on the charm, give a person a great big down home, Indiana shake your hand hello. I like to melt them; it makes me feel good to be personable and friendly.

I just woke up out of deep sleep, as normal, I felt as if I was on the top bunk, in some strange land, I was about to fall out of bed. It was too dark in my room to know any difference; there are no sounds outside my room. I laid here in my bed, looking at dark, trying to clear my head. I feel weak, however I also feel stronger.

The Hawks won yesterday I am told.

I feel that maybe this travel thing is hurting me more than it is helping me, I am worried. I am not the same love everyone person I was when I left Indiana, not that Indiana person are all love you, kiss you, hold you people. However, I know in Indiana I could melt the coldest of hearts, and eventually break them down, make a friend. I believe you can do that to anyone; however, I know that I am starting to not want to. It becomes more difficult each day to fight the good fight, to put my best foot forward.

I like Culture, I like to learn how a person says hello to each other in other cultures, whether is a - Que mas - in Colombia or a - Todo Bin - in Brazil, or - Sawasdee Kalp - in Thailand, there is normally a way.

I think they say - All right - here in the Caribbean many times, sometime - Hey - , I am not always sure, as the English is difficult to understand.

Maybe this is the problem, when I say Hello here, melting a person that cannot understand me, has no idea why I am saying hello, does not trust me, does not know me, however in the end has maybe never had many white people say hello is difficult.

Anguilla is easy, the people here are easier to melt, and I can get a smile on their face faster than the countries and cultures south of here. I do think in Barbados it was or could be a start of the change from the South of the Caribbean to the North of the Caribbean and how this bleeds into the Bahamas who knows. There are cultural lines, boundaries, where one culture tries to start and another tries to stop. Normally there are some natural boundaries like a river or a mountain range.

Example

This is the physical features map from my Encyclopedia Encarta (2). You can see the Allegheny Mountains, Ohio River, Delaware.

I can hear John Denver singing that popular song, I think name - Country Roads-

- Almost Heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River, life is older, older than the hills, younger than the mountains, country roads, take me home, to a place I belong. -

There are rivers, roads, mountains, and some separation of culture, maybe the language will change, maybe this section was old German Farmers, maybe the French wanted to go south and create come - Villes, or who can figure out all of this clearly. The evolution of culture is not clean; it is a hodgepodge of mixes.

The north against the south, the - Gone with the Winds - This is about cultures, fighting, sometime forcing themselves to mix. To me as I understand, the book - Gone with the Wind - was about a culture, which was Gone with the wind. It ended, suddenly, like the stopping of the wind.

How wonderfully distinct the cultures can or could be considered in the Caribbean, as we have African, Spanish, Portuguese, French, British, Dutch all snapping at their heels trying to carve out a piece of the rock. Just like the USA it is a melting pot, you can see it simmering and stirring around, language changes, good and false claims. One country saying it is this, one island saying it is that.

I have been muddling around in my Encyclopedia trying to understand these countries. It is interesting as I talk with tourist in the Caribbean. The guidebook put or overlays a heavy religious culture or conservative nature of the Caribbean. The people read this and then they repeat this.

READ AND REPEAT

Then it become true, this is an annoying thing to me about reading and learning, it like anything in writing is the truth, while not anything I am seeing is the truth. It is the same with the CNN or BBC effect, as if anything the reporters say is true while the reality and be very different.

The Caribbean is very religious, I see and feel the religious nature in signs, posters, and many churches everywhere. I would not say it is conservative, as the guidebook would lead you to believe. Cultures can and do change very rapidly, and now with the television, the culture of music videos, in the last 10 years or 20, I am not sure when.

MTV Music TeleVision - network was founded in 1981- (2)

Ok for about 25 years the dominant cultural influence, world changing cultural movement is the Music Video.

I guess this is somewhere over the rainbow, I am trying to figure out how to melt the cultures I meet, how to become part of the area, how to melt myself into their cultures. I like to live with the cultures, not be the visitor. I can adjust and come in close with the Christian Cultures very fast, the Islamic ones are very friendly however I am not Islamic therefore not part of whatever.

Anguilla was like a breath of Fresh Air yesterday after many of the other countries I have visited. I am in Crocus Bay area of Anguilla, I am not able yet to find the rich areas of Anguilla, this is ok, I am not that excited to re-enter the tourist bubble. I am happy to be out of the tourist bubble.

Hmmmm

Caribbean is about 90 percent African

It appears to me that inside the tourist bubble areas Bob Marley and MTV is the religion and in the area I am located presently it is about 90 percent for normal religion culture and 10 percent for the Bob Marley - MTV culture.

What this means is the balance is better, I know or feel that MTV is not a good influence on the children of the planet. It is meant to be fun, entertaining and everyone can say what he or she will, believing music is harmless.

Words can hurt, I know the words I put in my brain, the words I allow to enter my brain is the person I become. I can feel the changes happening to me slowly as I become a man of the world and not a man from Indiana. It is not what I want; I want to be a man from Indiana, a place where everyone knows you name. However, I will become the person you expect me to be, I will become the people around me, I will become slowly the local culture. I have no choice, I am what is I am around.

I have a person that wants me to talk more about my alcoholism, not the best subject to talk about, for many reasons. However, the way a person stops drinking is by changing their playmates and playpens. Not by just making a choice. It is a decision to change people around you, not a decision to stop. It is to change completely what a person allows in their life. I do not allow many of the words I hear or many of the lyrics I hear on MTV to enter my world. I will not pretend, try to be macho, try to say, it does not mean anything, all words you say to me, mean something.

Hard hearts are difficult to melt, tourist can be very hard, travelers sometimes can be harder.

Primitive cultures are softer than the modern cultures; I like the more primitive cultures because they have nicer hearts. Many people will make fun of President Bush for talking about Religion, or God, or saying things about God. This is difficult, I can see their point, however would you rather have a person up there professing to say or believe that I am the King of Atheist, I do not believe in GOOD, or GOD.

Not that simple, however there is a light and a dark path.

I am trying to learn about the Caribbean, I have many people read or may not read, I really could care less. However when I type in my blog, and any person that would type a blog when they are traveling, I would speculate or hope they write into three areas of time they travel.

1. BEFORE
What they expect or think the will or could see.

2. DURING
This is the confusion stage, where you do not understand

3. AFTER
The impressions after you see a culture.

4. LATER

There is an impression, ideas, decisions you make much later, maybe a year later, maybe a month later, however one my brain has tossed around what I have seen, put the experiences through the wash machine a few time, they will come out dried and ready to hang up, this is my thoughts on the country.

I am sad.

I see people writing what they believe they should write for other persons; this to me destroys the value of a journal or diary. It to me is a great place to work through my thoughts and views, a sounding board of taking my abstract feeling and evolving them into words.

I read Blogs where the person is so positive what they seen, I read the guidebook, and it is as if they are making an opinion into a fact.

The Hawks won yesterday in Anguilla, maybe.

Anguilla Internet

I am in the country of Anguilla now, staying in a wonderful guesthouse called Casa Nadines, I have probably already met more Caribbean people in the last  24 hours than I had met in the last months travel

 

The place is quiet, 20 Dollars per night U.S. and has a kitchen. The world of the Caribbean closes on Sunday, I have found an Internet cafe in the Library for 4 Dollars U.S. per hour, however it is presently stopping my USB thumbdrive.

 

I am hoping tomorrow to bring in my computer and connect, they seem willing to allow or help me, there is a wireless connection they say, however I must turn it on, hope it works.

 

The Anguilla Hawks Won Yesterday

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Map of Anguila

Map of Anguila

I am going to this country today Sunday, I will be there about noon today.

Here at this link has many maps, I am close to Saint Maarten or something like that, and the airport that serves is Antigua it appears. I am hoping to ferry hop to Saba, Eustacia (spelling) and St Barts, land in Antigua and fly somewhere over the rainbow.

http://www.hobotraveler.com/ma_mapofanguilla.shtml

Someone send my parents a HUGE world globe, big enough to see without glasses.

Free Wifi Antigua Airport

Free Wifi Antigua Airport

I am amazed, I think there are three free connections here in the Antigua Airport, I am in transit, in no-mans land between Barbados and Anguilla, however I am in the country of Antigua, however not in the country, ergo No-Mans Land. I have not idea how long my battery will last, the clock says 8:50 the time is really something like 9:30, I am not sure, I hope I am judging it right, I leave at 10:45 for Anguilla

One slip and I miss a plane, my time I have checked is 10:45 to depart with Liat Airlines. I am ecstatic to find some free wireless, contrary to any myths, the free wireless when really traveling are hard to hop on, the cost here in the airport is 12 Dollars US per hour for the box computer that are available, or 3 Dollars U.S. per 15 minutes.

Maybe Gary wrote me with the address of his friends in Anguilla, like most of the world they only really do email Monday to Friday, so a dollar short and a day late if there is not an email in my box already too late to adjust any plans.

Cheaper Airport Taxis

Cheaper Airport Taxis

I am in the Barbados Airport, sitting on the floor in front of the departure station in front of the Liat Airlines, no chair, waiting very confused in No-Mans land, where I have I think already left the country, not sure, nothing is clear.

On the entrance to Barbados they had the normal queue of Taxis, I did not have any Barbados money so went searching for a Bank Machine. They had an exchange, however not what I do, I never have travelers checks. Very seldom exchange when entering, sometimes just for taxi money. However because the Barbados Airport has the ATM machines in the wrong area, the departure, I needed to walk to the departure entrance to the airport.

Well, I got my money, then walked out, flagged a taxi down, he only charged me 25 Barbados and not the 30 quoted.

Many airports have an extortion system of taxis, you must pay. Only way to avoid is to walk outside the airport. Not the safest or easiest thing to do.

I have learned in Bangkok, very organized place that when the queue is very long I can go up to the second floor and grab a taxi just dropping off passengers. The taxi does not have to pay all the pay to play in the airport fees, is very happy, no wait