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Jamaica’s Leader Asks for Investments to Upgrade Roads and Keep Growing

Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica with the tourism minister.

Yesterday we met Jamaica’s prime minister, the very elegant and stately Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, who officially opened the island’s first airport departure lounge in Montego Bay.  It would seem this isn’t a big deal, another airport perk for the high and mighty business class traveler, but it’s a milestone […]

Visiting the Rum factory, enjoying the scenery of St Elizabeth

We drove past vast fields lined with hand made wooden fences, carved branches from the vast forests of Jamaica, used for the fences to keep in the good looking brown cows that are raised here on the South Coast. This part of Jamaica is wide open, spacious, and utterly perfectly […]

Jason Henzell Wants to Create the Martha’s Vineyard of Jamaica

Jason Henzell, of Jake's Restaurant on Treasure Bay, St Elizabeth Jamaica.

Jason Henzell has the accent and the pedigree to do quite well in Jamaica.  His father Perry Henzell produced and directed the defining film about Jamaica heard ’round the world, The Harder They Come, starring Jimmy Cliff.  A movie poster decorates Henzell and his family’s inn, Jake’s Hotel, on Treasure […]

Drive With Me from Montego Bay to the Treasure Coast

Ride with me from Montego Bay to Treasure Bay, across the vast mountainous hump of this large-feeling island, in a comfortable large eleven passenger Ford van.  We zigzagged out way up around and across the heights until finally we were on our way home. The big van lurches around corners, […]

Milk Sales Hit the Skids, and the Dairy Industry Fights Back

Do you know about the milk crisis?  Yep. Since the 1970s, consumption of milk in the US has plunged by 30 percent, according to a story in today’s WSJ.  That’s a true bummer on top of the lowest prices in decades, which are creating a situation where the end result […]

Flying to Jamaica on Weds, I’ll Share it All Right Here

Sarah Hartshorne enjoys a swim in Reach Falls, Jamaica.

One of the ways I get revved up when I sit down to write a post is to look back at what I wrote exactly one year ago today. I remember after I begin to read the year-old posts exactly how I felt when I wrote it. As if it […]

UK’s Tesco Just Didn’t Understand American Supermarket Shoppers

It’s amazing that a company with a $72 billion supermarket business in Europe and around the world could stumble so badly when they tried to open a chain of new supermarkets in the US.  In today’s WSJ, I read the story of how Tesco is giving up its Fresh and […]

Greenfield’s Innovation Center: Can We Make It Happen?

I remember well the times that I would be counting the meager earnings while looking over the bills to be paid at the GoNOMAD Cafe.  I used to  think, jeez, what will I do when I have to close this place? Where would I go if I didn’t have a […]

What Makes a Great Weekend?

We only get 52 weekends a year, and I often like to take stock of what transpired during mine, sort of like how I am after a movie or after a dinner date. Did we like it? Did we have fun? Would we want to do it again?  What was […]

A Houseful of Guests and Warmth of Fire and Intimacy

Relaxin with my sisters.

It’s December 1st and it’s snowing. Perfect. The month is here when we all spend more than we really have, yet we all keep spending and spending, throwing our cares to the wind. We have three houseguests and the upstairs is packed full, all three bedrooms occupied by my three […]

Routines Make Our Lives Go Smoothly

Routines are comforting, and make our daily lives feel more secure. Not knowing what is going to happen is much worse than a predictable steady flow of life…and that’s what I have always have had in my home life, just like my parents did.  My dad has a very regular […]

For Ten Years, I was Kent’s Boss–Because that’s What He Did

Kent St. John and Max Hartshorne of GoNOMAD in Great Barrington, MA.

He always called me his boss. Kent liked that, because it said a lot about how he treated  his role as one of GoNOMAD’s most prolific contributors. He was a professional traveler, and blogger, and photographer and his life was about the journey. He lived it to the utmost. Last […]

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