We left the states on Saturday, May 25 and arrived in Kingston, Jamaica in the early afternoon.
Customs thankfully did not take too long, considering we were a group of thirty people coming into another country! Kim's Dad, Dr. Bob, was evening bringing in three large tubs full of medicine, OTC as well as controlled substances! We were expecting him to be caught in customs for several hours, but he was gone only about 45 minutes! It was pretty amazing...
We were picked up at the airport by Steve Puffpaff Jr. and our driver Paul. We then took the perilous journey through Kingston and into the Blue Mountains. I say perilous simply because the roads and the drivers are so much more intense in Jamaica! It's every driver for themselves! Plus, the mountain roads are soooo narrow, and in very poor condition. We nearly got into three accidents. Here's a clip I found on YouTube.com that shows the roads a little bit. This isn't our group, but I thought it was pretty cool:
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Except for all of the excitement with the near accidents, the drive was very beautiful. The mountains are very lush and you could feel the air cooling as we got higher and higher into the mountains. When we were able to see The City of Refuge from the road, we knew we were almost there.
