It was the Easter weekend and I attended a lovely Church gathering on Good Friday accompanied by both husband and son. This was the “right start” for me for this particular holiday at this time of year. So I felt GOOD (as opposed to guilty) as we drove out from Kingston on the Junction Road, on a bright and beautiful day, headed for San San in Port Antonio, Jamaica. There is natural beauty to be found almost everywhere in Jamaica, but this North Eastern Coast is bounteous in its beauty, and is truly an area of “wood and water”. We drove by Giant Bamboo stands, interspersed with tall, tall coconut trees.

During the Carnival, Easter and August holidays or even just on a simple weekend some Trinidadians enjoy taking a somewhat long, but scenic and challenging drive to the island’s most northeasterly point; Toco.

South St Elizabeth is a section of Jamaica I hadn’t seen in years so I was happy to accompany my husband on his business trip to that parish. Work for him, fun and sightseeing for me. Sounded like an acceptable combination! I really had almost no memories of this part of Jamaica and looked forward to the entire trip including the drive down. Leaving Kingston we took the highway 2000 to Freetown, Clarendon, driving through remarkably different vistas. Changing views of rolling hills in the distance to narrowed, winding roads as we drove along the origins of the famous Milk River which supplies the Milk River Bath and Spa with it’s hot mineral enriched waters which people visit from near and far to ‘take the waters’ and experience it’s healing properties. As we drove by I recalled my parents taking family outings at the Spa with my siblings and grandmother several times during my childhood.