Excited
I Became a Route Taxi
How do my sunglasses relate to earning my first taxi fare in Jamaica? Keep reading and watch the video below to find out!
I broke my sunglasses one day in Black River, Jamaica and desperately needed to replace them so I headed into town to find some. I found a random parking lot to park my Budget Rental Car and asked the first person I saw where I can buy a pair of sunglasses. I figured he would direct me to a store but instead he pointed right “ova deh so” to a guy standing in the parking lot with a little table set up full of sunglasses and belts for sale. My lucky day! I headed over to the table and proceeded to try on numerous pairs of glasses as a small crowd of guys gathered to be my fashion assistants and tell me which pair looked the best.
After purchasing my favorite sunglasses for $800 jmd I was about to leave when a taxi pulled into the lot. The driver of the car came out and started chatting me up and asked if I needed a ride, to which I answered NO because I have my own car. He told me to just get in and we’ll go for a ride. My adventurous side won and I decided to drive around with him for no reason whatsoever and met a lot of fun passengers on the way. Little did I know this guy would turn into one of the coolest people I’ve met on the island, and the most fun too!
I shot this video using my dash camera while following him around his community a couple days after our original meeting. There were very few passengers this day but lots of livestock on the road. And in the end his car was fully loaded with people so I ended up taking some passengers to Black River. It was a lot of fun and very coincidental that one of my passengers ended up being a fellow Canadian! They did end up paying me the proper fare even though I tried to refuse it. I didn’t want the money, I just wanted the experience!
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HAHAHAHA!! I love it!! You sound exactly like I do whenever I see the little goats on the road! You’re my hero chickie!!
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LOL thanks Jodi! I had a lot of fun with this guy – I will be doing another video down the road of a motorbike trip I did with him. It was awesome!
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AWWW dwl…that is so awesome!!! its soo nice to see the countryside…funny how you can meet a fellow canadian anywhere!! i cant wait to get back too
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Kelly!!! You and I would have had SOOOO much fun down on the south coast. We need to go together sometime!
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You did a great job of avoiding the potholes! enjoyed the video
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Oh no I edited out the parts of the video where the potholes were LOL! Too many to avoid!
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What model is your dash camera Kristi, the filming was quite good. Could do with one of these, for my next trip as I do drive when I’m around the South part of Jamaica.
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Betty it’s a Veho Muvi HD Mini. It comes with all kinds of mounts and sticky stuff so you can set it up anywhere!
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the real Jamaica!,love seeing the livestock making their way around the roadside,thanks so much for sharing this,such beautiful countryside and good vibes,one love!
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Wait until you see a bunch of upcoming blog posts! St Elizabeth seems to be the livestock capital of the island LOL! The cows dem a do road!
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Love Love Love this video! Made me feel like I was driving along
And now I’m missing the drives & driving in Jamaica 
pot holes and all LOL
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Thanks Vera! There will be plenty more driving videos in upcoming blog posts. Some crazy mountain roads too!
I miss it every single day.
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LOVE the vid hun! Can’t wait to see what else you got coming!
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Love it! Made me laugh! Love the Ontarian you picked up living the life! lol
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Oddly enough that guy owns another guest house down there and has invited me back to try it out!
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HAHA that was fabulous, love the quality of the dash Cam! im nearly lose his pants lol
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LOOOL I know right Nae! I noticed his pants too. He’s so fun though!
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