Port Antonio – Sunday Nov 20

This mission has yet again been endangered by an unforeseen factor. Friday, installing the Control Room in London it was the our primary means of communication – the laptop – that irreparable broke down resulting in a day of total frenzy and near disaster. On Jamaica, it isn’t authorities, logistics, or European self-doubt that threaten our success, but a cancerous form of music, which the indigenous of the island know as "reggae". This tumor-causing music from hell has proven to be a danger to our mental sanity. Its deadly rhythms are directed at us interminably from numerous sources all at once wherever we go.

After an evening and a day on Jamaica, it already looks like we have to skip plan c and commence with plan d. The mobilization plan seems to be overly optimistic as backpackers and Jamaicans most amiably refuse to sign on the mission. We have not given up our hope for to see a joyous army of backpackers but prospects certainly looks bleak:



Christopher from the UK chose not to join the mission

Lars & Kim from Denmark chose not to join the mission

Imaj from Japan chose not to join the mission

Not everything is going against us: regarding military hardware things are looking up. Thus, we successfully signed a deal with Althea of ‘Courts’ in Kingston involving the crucial supply of the deadly boombox, which is to be used against the American. Oh, what a fantastic moment in this most tackiest of home supply stores when glorious Beethoven for a brief moment blended out the lethal ‘reggae’ of the in-store loudspeaker system.

Thomas Herzen shaking hands with a representative of 'Courts' in Kingston

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Advance:
Saturday: London -> Kingston
Sunday: Kingston -> Port Antonio

Weary from the bombardment of ‘reggae’ Herzen slumps on Europe on the porch of the hotel in Port Antonio: