GETTING LOST IS AN OPTION FOR SOME
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:18 am
Hi All
Just thought I would share with you an e-mail that I sent Steve recently:
Hi Steve
I read your website from time to time, having been to T & T in April, great site by the way, glad I stumbled across it.
Anyway, we managed to do the impossible whilst in Tobago, we got lost!!!!
Myself and three others had hired a mazda and on the Sunday had decided to drive completely around the island starting from Signal Hill and going round the Atlantic side first. When when we got to about Moriah I think it was, we managed to take the wrong fork in the road and got lost for the next three hours. As we had pulled down this road, I spotted a local trying to deter us , but as I didn’t know the driver too well, kept quiet, and since 4 youths had tried to flag us down earlier, no doubt up to no good, we carried on regardless. Anyway the next three hours were memorable for driving down a track no wider than the car, with a 100metre drop on one side, at no more than ten mph. At a few points we heard the crunch of the bottom of the car as it hit some obstacle, and we were fully expecting to have to get out and push. We didn’t see any other vehicles or even houses during this route, but I would love to know just how far off the beaten track we had gone, and am curious to know if you could help.
With the theme from deliverance ringing in my ears, we eventually we stumbled across a main road and ended up in Mason Hall, although via some circuitous route. Anyway, the only thing I can remember as a visual clue, was that at some point we drove past an old abandoned blue bus, single decker that looked like it had spent the best part of twenty years by the side of the road. I have a picture of this as proof, as this was the first thing of significance we had seen in an hour, despite our predicament this turned out to be the funniest time we had, couldn’t stop laughing as we went one way then the next.
We were no strangers to going off the beaten track having driven up to the top of flagstaff hill, but this was something else, and as the advert goes, you’ll be amazed at a Mazda.
I was just curious as to where on earth we had been, and if you are aware of it.
Thanks.
Nick
Just thought I would share with you an e-mail that I sent Steve recently:
Hi Steve
I read your website from time to time, having been to T & T in April, great site by the way, glad I stumbled across it.
Anyway, we managed to do the impossible whilst in Tobago, we got lost!!!!
Myself and three others had hired a mazda and on the Sunday had decided to drive completely around the island starting from Signal Hill and going round the Atlantic side first. When when we got to about Moriah I think it was, we managed to take the wrong fork in the road and got lost for the next three hours. As we had pulled down this road, I spotted a local trying to deter us , but as I didn’t know the driver too well, kept quiet, and since 4 youths had tried to flag us down earlier, no doubt up to no good, we carried on regardless. Anyway the next three hours were memorable for driving down a track no wider than the car, with a 100metre drop on one side, at no more than ten mph. At a few points we heard the crunch of the bottom of the car as it hit some obstacle, and we were fully expecting to have to get out and push. We didn’t see any other vehicles or even houses during this route, but I would love to know just how far off the beaten track we had gone, and am curious to know if you could help.
With the theme from deliverance ringing in my ears, we eventually we stumbled across a main road and ended up in Mason Hall, although via some circuitous route. Anyway, the only thing I can remember as a visual clue, was that at some point we drove past an old abandoned blue bus, single decker that looked like it had spent the best part of twenty years by the side of the road. I have a picture of this as proof, as this was the first thing of significance we had seen in an hour, despite our predicament this turned out to be the funniest time we had, couldn’t stop laughing as we went one way then the next.
We were no strangers to going off the beaten track having driven up to the top of flagstaff hill, but this was something else, and as the advert goes, you’ll be amazed at a Mazda.
I was just curious as to where on earth we had been, and if you are aware of it.
Thanks.
Nick
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Not much different than here in Chicago where the typical road crew consists of one man slowly digging a hole with 6 or 7 "supervisors" standing around watching. 
Probably not much different anywhere else in the world either. 
, or am i thinking too hard for this time of night with a brain adled by contraband smuggled rum? whatever, March 2010 may work quite well for us, usually visit end May/early June, but this will possibly clash with daughters GCSE's (exams taken at age 16), and also planned trip with her to New York to celebrate her 16th birthday. Maybe we need to start a reunion (or union