We've been here a little over four years and loved it. Along the way, we’ve learned a few things:
1. It’s better to win the raffle than the golf tournament. When you win the tournament, everyone is jealous (because you were better than they) but the “rifa” winner is lucky and celebrated. It’s backward, but that’s how it goes.
2. Paradise is overrated and overpriced. Heinous prices are charged for everyday things like peanut butter and dark beer, if you can even get them. Usually, you can’t.
3. Just because the people speak Spanish, it doesn’t mean they have good Mexican food. The quesadilla I had last night was heated cheez-whiz on a tortilla.
4. They have no regard for sports that make sense to gringos. No basketball, no football…they play squash, if you can believe it.
So we are departing this island to take over the family business in the USA…it’s a mom and pop place, a one-man-band, but it’s the next step in a journey that continues to get better.
~dt and family will move from the Caribbean to rural Tennessee in May. He can’t wait to watch ESPN.
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