All right, 7:15, minus 15
or something, it's freezing.
Uber's here.
Ready to go to Jamaica.
Beautiful day, though.
It was my quickest through security ever,
no problem with heavy bags.
Stoked on Air Canada, they
just throw it in there.
Probably overweight but they didn't care.
So...
Yes.
Just in the lounge here
waiting for coffee,
and arranging some stuff for Jamaica.
So, got some really cool stuff lined up.
Gonna be hanging out with
the Migrationology team.
That's Mark Weens, and Joel and his crew.
So, big things with those guys.
We're looking to link up
with Yaadcore in Kingston,
and go do some food touring and stuff.
So, there's a whole bunch more.
I'm just e-mailing and trying to line up
the dates right now, and see what days I'm
in Ras Kitchen, Sunning Hill.
What days I'm in Kingston,
gonna roll to Mobay too,
to do some other stuff, but yes,
getting this done while
I still have internet.
There you go.
Thank you.
So, got the car pretty smooth.
Got the insurance on the
old Visa card air plan.
Highly recommend it you don't have to pay
the other insurance,
there's a whole bunch.
I'll put a link to that down below.
Highly recommend it.
Just gonna get some
cash, the Digicel card,
and then hitting the road.
All right?
All right.
All right, while you do your check,
if you want to do it before mine--
I'll walk around with you,
you probably have memorized
every little--
All right, good.
So, we've got minor scratches
on fender which is noted here.
All hub caps here are
full scratched, all right,
including mirrors.
Functional mirror, didn't catch once.
Slight scratch on the front there,
lower section .
Minor scratches all over the body for me.
Hey, got the car check.
Just in time to go to Digicel
'cause they close at 5.
Or if you're here on a Sunday,
you can be out of luck too.
So, before I do anything else,
last important step.
All right, Digicel, pretty
good, pretty smooth.
Next up, I gotta get some cash.
So, if you haven't been to Jamaica before,
you just look for the bank machines
that have the plus or the Cirrus on them.
Sometimes there's a limit
on how much you can take out though,
so, make sure you know
how much you can do.
'Cause otherwise you can get like,
stuck paying, taking
out 200 bucks at a time.
That kind of thing, that kind of nonsense.
And they don't really take American here.
If you're at the resorts
and stuff, yes they will.
Sometimes, you can pay U.S
in places like Digicel,
sometimes with taxi's and that.
But I found less and less
over the years that they want
other currencies so,
you're way better off
getting Jamaican cash.
And even in Digicel actually just now.
They wouldn't take Visa,
I had to pay for my phone card with cash.
So, cash is king.
All right, on the road...
here we go.
Ho, Ho.
Damn it, I was thinking
this camera would be perfect
on this little mount,
but it's slipping around already.
So, anyway, yeah just leaving
Kingston airport here.
Gonna try and keep everything in check.
It's getting dark, as usual,
things take a little longer than expected,
was an hour late leaving Toronto
and then took a bit of time to...
get out of the airport.
Get the phone card, get the
car, and blah blah blah.
But, we're on the way.
It's looking good.
My usual thing is stopping
off at Yowah's for chicken.
I would love chicken.
I'm driving in first it seems.
Okay, that's better.
All right...
eyes on the road.
Gotta get used to driving left again.
I mean, I'm pretty used to it.
Spend a lot of time here and in Indonesia.
I've lived in New Zealand
and Aus and those places,
but it's always a little
adjustment at first, for sure.
Happy the board fits inside,
I was trying to get one with
a back flip down, but no love.
Anyhow, as long as it's in here.
It's what counts.
Mobay.
Shout out to everyone at
Jamnesia, I love that place.
I will definitely be
going back on this trip.
Hopefully do some skateboarding,
and surfing with the guys over there.
Super friendly crew, great
family, so check them out.
On the link below.
I love staying there,
kind of my last couple
nights before I go home.
This is such a good way to end the trip.
Danger.
I guess you can go, you're bigger than me.
Style.
If you're bigger you own the road here.
And I'm driving a Yaris, so.
Ah, fuck.
Hey, how you doin'?
Good.
Why not?
Maybe I'll do a coconut too.
Cold coco- ah, perfect, yeah.
You don't mind?
No problem.
Okay, cool.
Nice.
First one of the trip is an important one.
Bless.
Very important.
Oh man.
I've got a thing with forgetting
things on top of the car.
So...
don't want to do that.
Oh my god, that's so good.
I haven't had one for a while.
Here we go.
Here's Jamnesia, it's gonna be back there.
This is life I'm tellin' ya.
Driving with a coconut.
Real energy drink.
Oh, watch the pot holes.
Oh, a pot hole.
Whoops.
Yeah, we're getting into St. Thomas so...
the roads are getting better,
but they're not ideal.
I gotta watch that stuff.
It's getting darker, its 5:42.
Whoa, there's some goats.
Yeah, racing the clock
here to make it by sunset.
But yeah...
The...
airport,
the yard is about an hour and a half
if there's no traffic.
Or goats on the road, or
whatever else nonsense.
So, ideally we'll be getting there
just as the evening begins.
I hear this is the best
gas station around.
If you're local and can confirm
that, please comment below.
These are the guys you
gotta watch on the road.
So, goats.
If you see a cow, you
kinda know what it's doing.
If you see a goat, it could be anything.
It's mysterious.
This is the spot.
This is the chicken spot.
How are you man, you got soup?
You got chicken too?
Yeah?
Can I take a video on my little camera?
Yeah?
What kinda soup you got?
Fish soup.
Ah, nice.
Jerk chicken.
Maybe I'll do...
Could I do one jerk chicken,
one jerk pork?
Yeah.
Nice.
Yeah, maybe I'll do,
like, two piece chicken...
oh, you've got the pork in here.
Yeah, one pork, one chicken.
You got vegetables too?
Vegetables?
Wicked, all right.
Sounds good.
Nice.
I like how that works.
If you guys are at a festival,
you just shout across the street,
and this guy is gonna bring it for us.
It's very convenient.
Yes sir, thank you.
All right, bless up, thanks guys.
I'll see you around.
I'll be back soon.
All right.
See what I mean about the goats?
They're just going fucking everywhere.
Driving here it's pretty chill,
there's some aggressive drivers.
For the most part
though, compared to Asia,
it's pretty relaxing.
So, looks like I'm going
to be too late for surfing.
That's a shame, but I just
got a message from Dave Botts.
Whose a Ras Kitchen viewer in Puerto Rico.
Big up, Dave.
Pretty sure he's in Puerto Rico,
and he said there's a big swell
coming to hit the Caribbean.
So, hopefully it comes...
next week 'cause we're pretty much busy
all week until Monday.
Maybe even Tuesday, so that'd be great.
But that's just bonus, I'm
just so happy to be here.
It's nice and warm.
As you saw this morning, I left minus 15,
I think they said it was
minus 20 with the wind chill,
or something crazy like that.
So...
yeah.
I love this place.
The festival's so good.
It's because it's cooking
on the same barbecue
that the jerk pork and the jerk chicken
is getting cooked on.
And it gets all the
smoke from the barbecue.
Just like infuses...
this thing.
Ah, this festival.
Oh my God.
What's up?
What's going on, boy?
How are ya'?
Hop in the back.
If you want.
Oh, one sec.
.
What's up?
.
How are you?
.
A little late, you know, but I made it.
Okay, my boy.
All right.
Yeah, man.
Yes, sir.
Long day but...
made it.
You made it, my boy.
I made it trying to film in
the car at the same time.
Yes sir.
It's not as nice of a
car as last time, but--
Oh, different car?
Yeah, it'll do.
It's okay.
.
I'd get a bigger one.
A bigger one?
Yeah, well the board--
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, it's okay.
.
I don't know, I might go
surf later in the week.
I don't think it's that good right now.
.
Right here?
No, man turn around.
Yeah, I'll turn around.
All right.
Hey buddy.
Wow, what a welcome .
Where's your friend?
No friend.
You no come with no friend?
Not today.
Oh okay.
Hey Rat.
You drive the rental?
Yeah man, rental car.
Surf board.
You can't surf.
Yeah.
It's good.
Oh yeah?
Oh good.
I like it.
Thank you.
Hey, Doret
Hi, so nice to see you.
How are you?
Strong or fat?
You get fat!
Fat?
I know I'm fat.
You get fat!
Me be in Canada for too long.
No, I've got lots of things in my pockets.
You get so fat.
Give me three weeks here, I won't be fat.
Too much time in Canada, too much beer,
too much whatever, you know.
Wifey's at home.
Oh!
Work me or work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, Mokko just rolled
me this little spliff,
but it's actually a big cannon.
Look who we got.
Coppy whose always happier.
This is Mackenzie.
Hi.
Hey.
And...
the man himself.
Yeah, man.
Yeah.
And he just rolled me a giant spliff, so.
Thanks, I'm happy to be back.
Yeah, man.
Cheers guys.
Ching!
Ching!
Uprising, you know.
Uprising, that's it.
