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“Please: tell e ryone ‘that _

the. Bahamas - is .very ex-
pensive. We’ were there for a

“people, e When I was
on _my_.own the men were
‘pushy. ‘Compared to a

.vacation: in, Hawaii, I'd take

Hawaii every time.”

. A friend who travels the
‘world like most of us take a
cross-town bus was miffed.
She, ‘too, had’ just returned
-from the Caribbean. “I'm not
much. of a swimmer! For me
to get in the water, it has to
be WARM, like it is in the
‘Caribbean. Last year in
Hawaii I couldn't stand the
cold water so I didn't enjoy
the beaches. Tell everyone
that for swimming the
Caribbean can’t be beaten.”
She admitted

that the

prices were too high but.

added, “The men didn’t give
me any problems because |
made .it clear that I wasn't
interested, Also, I spent
most of my time with an
elderly couple I met and that
certainly discouraged any
passes.”

I suggested to her that
because she was West Indian
(Trinidadian) by birth, she
might have received better
treatment. She didn’t agree.

The funniest remark came
from a couple recently
returned from Mexico. “We
haven't been to the Carib-
bean Islands but
ANYTHING would be

better than where we were. .

Were we sick! They went on
to say that they wished they
could have donated their
ticket (one way) to their next
door neighbor, He has kept
the neighborhood — en-
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