Vacation

[2003] 

[Aajonus] 

This time instead of going into Q&A, I'm going to tell you a little bit about my experience on vacation. I went to Guadeloupe, which is an island in the West Indies. It's French owned and French speaking. They speak Creo and French there, no English like somebody's from Montreal. So, it's very difficult to find anybody to speak English. 

I don't speak French well enough to have any conversation about nutrition. So, that's why I went there and I would be assured to have a vacation 

It worked; it was a fun time. One day, I went to go hiking, on Guadeloupe it's like two islands flooded together and one is called Grande-Terre and the other's called Bastard. So, every time you say it you say bastard, but it's Basse-Terre, but in French, it's called Basse-Terre, but it sounds like you star with a hard r. So, it's bastard and Grande-Terre. 

The Grande-Terre, it's very hilly, lots of hills and valleys, so I drove all through that and it was nice. The other island is where the volcano is. It's not an active volcano and jungle all around it, and mainly on these two islands the Grande-Terre is mainly sugarcane. The other island is mainly coffee, and bananas. 

So, it's heavily farmed, but it's gorgeous. So, I was going to go on the natural human path, which is just cut through, it's pretty rocky and messy, and I went with these rubber tongs and in my shorts and a t-shirt and I was going on this road and I just didn't want to be on the road anymore. 

So, I started going to the animal trails. That's rough cause you have to go under, and you have to climb over these groups of big, tall roots. Tall ceiling and then falling over them. It was wonderful, and I actually spent about five hours climbing through the jungle trying to find the waterfall, and finally got to it and there were a couple of people on the diet who were professional rock climbers and, they forced me to go up. 

So, I went, it was okay, but I was always afraid of Heights, and since the stomach surgery, I've always been nauseous from heights, but something came over me and I climbed all the way down the falls and then all the way down the lower falls. A rock lining all the way, it's phenomenally with these palms. 

And how many times they broke, they were well made tongs, their actual rubber, never find anything like that in the United States. And I had one of those Swiss army knives, so they have 28 tools. So, I was able to punch it back through, and I had only banged up my nails and looked at my nails, I had a few cuts on my toes. 

But it was pretty easy. It was pretty good, and I was just so amazed that I was able to do that. And then the last day I was there, they had a thing called cirque, which means circus, and they have trapeze. I turn 56 in 2 months, and I get up there on the trapeze, about 30 feet or so high. 

You pull the trapeze over and I'm nauseous as hell. I got up there and I was very nauseous and I said, I'm gonna have to stand here until the nausea goes. If the nausea doesn't go, I'm not jumping, just trapped. So, I waited about five, six minutes, the nausea went away, and then of course, when I had to hang out and grab the thing, the nausea came back. So, I stood there for a good two minutes and knew what they had me strapped on the bungee cords on the side, couldn't be a terrible accident.  

The only thing that was a rude awakening is it's right near the equation and it's only about 500 miles north of Venezuela, and it was very humid. 

I was perspiring like crazy when I was going through the jungle and of course I was drinking the water coming from the stream. There are these signs, photograph signs showing the snail with this parasite that goes here to man, and what it causes, don't drink this water. I didn't seem to get any, I drank probably two liters of that water, but I had to drink more water. I drank probably four liters in the last three days that I was there and that's how much I drank in the whole year here or at least through the fall and winter.  

So, that vegetable juice was very important. So, the next time I go on a trip like that, I would definitely take my juice with me, so I don't have to drink the water because at the end of that, I got home, I found my teeth very sensitive. Other people won't react as much as I do because I normally don't drink water, but water's very leaching, like I said. 

And I took lots of cream with me. I couldn't get any red meat, I had little lamb chops a couple times, but there's no red meat on that island unless it's frozen. Fresh fish every day right off the dock, and I had it in my rental car, not even wrapped tightly, not in the jar or plastic bag, sitting in the back. 

I had big swordfishes there, and they're just cutting them up right there in big chunks, but I'm used to having a lot of red meat, and I had only a couple of lamb chops there, as far as meat. I was there for seven days.  

I did have some of the New Zealand beef, one quart jar of it, and I didn't eat it until I had to, about the sixth day there, and it was just like fresh. I had it in the hotel room with ice on it, change the ice every day. I turned refrigeration off, air conditioning off because I don't like air conditioning and I don't worry about mosquitos because I only got bit three times while I was there and I slept on the beach. I just liked having a hotel room. 

I went to Club Met. They knew who you are. Can always find somebody that speaks English there if you need to, and to always fall back. If nobody knows you, and you don't speak the language well, and something happens. It could be difficult to get help. 

It was very enjoyable, but I would definitely take more red meat with me in the future. And I did take enough cream, I took 8 ounces a day for the entire seven days and a little bit of sour cream. I forgot my cheese in Florida, that would save my lower mineral problem. 

I had plenty of butter, had everything I needed. 

I took my primal facial body care cream, which I use for sunscreen when it's hot, closer to the sun in the winter, 3 million miles closer to the sun, so it's much more intense. That's why in south America, when it's summer there, it's much hotter than it is here in the summer. So, it's very intense sun. 

The one day that I didn't put it on before I went out to the beach, and got into a salt water beach, which rips the fats off the skin. That two-hour period that I spent in the ocean water, I burned. 

[Attendee] 

Why? 

[Aajonus] 

Because i didn't use the primal facial body care cream. 

[Attendee #2] 

What were the girls like?  

[Aajonus] 

Well, natives have been moved off of all the islands, except for one, just like in Hawaii. True natives' who belong to those West Indian islands were put on an island. Most the black people lived there who were slaves and Eastern Indians, so those are the two cultures there. 

And you talked about minorities, whites are minority. You're lucky if you're 5% percent of the population. They're very sociable and nice until you start going back into where they live and then it's not a very nice place, just like why are you driving in my neighborhood?