Location: Dominica
The Argo crew took a grand tour of the island courtesy of SeaCat and Stowe (formerly known as Batman). Our tour was essentially gastronomical in nature, and I have never eaten more exotic fruit in one day. We sampled everything from lime-covered sugar cane (nature’s lemonade) to fresh pounded cocoa to soursop to watermelon. In between, we tasted mangoes, oranges, papayas, lemongrass, cassava cakes, coconuts, and my absolute favorite. Grapefruit picked fresh from the tree. SeaCat and Stowe were the most wonderful guides, and we finished our day in Dominica with a stop at two enormous waterfalls for a cold water bath because SeaCat told us, “With SeaCat tours, you always stay clean.” After a dip under the falls, we soaked in some of the hot springs that seem to flow from every nook and cranny in this land of 365 rivers. It was a truly wonderful day on the island. As our vans steamed up and down the narrow mountain roads on our way back to Argo, blasting “Cash Money” reggae with SeaCat jiving in the driver’s seat, I recalled his advice from 8 am that morning: “Let’s just relax now and see what comes our way.”