Sure, I'll Bite ... or Surf ... or ...
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| Dinner | Surfing | Soup | Fruit | Boat Trip |
| When I ask a 70-year old guy for directions out of Puerto Rico's interior, he insists I come to his restaurant first. There, he serves the best mofongo ever and raisin and banana moonshine in a cup that we share. He tells me of his dreams to sell insurance and why he sleeps with a gun: "My wife is capapble of things." As I get in my car after four hours, he locks his door. I've been the only patron all night. –Robert Stephens | "Let's go surfing." says Raimana Van Bastolaer, aka "The King of Teahupoo." I foloow him like a duckling to wear his Jet Ski and sled are being hooked up. @!#*t, tow surfing?! Butterflies kick in. I feel like I drank a case of Red Bull. I remind Raimana that I need to shoot. "Yeah, after surfing." If I'm in one piece.Plowing through waves, I wonder what's worse: falling off or exposing my white bum. –Shelly Strazis | I'm photographing Eskimos in Greenland slaughter a ringed seal when its blood pours out on the dock. They scoop it up and start to boil it over a fire with raw bits of blubber. There's no getting away from tasting it, much to their amusement. It's like salty hot water. My guide tries some too. Unfortunately he has a mustache. I let him walk around for an hour before telling him he looks like a vampire. –Jad Davenport | "Limoncillo," Carlos says, offering me the fruit, "the flavor of my country." Then he calls toward a large Dominican girl wearing stretch pants and curlers: "My dream is coming true!" He'd been accosting girls like this all day. "That's the whole package," he says. i cut the fruit with my teeth. It's mostly pit, but on the surface is lemon and honey. Carlos nods. It's good, yes?" Like a dreams come true, the whole package. –Mathew Miller | After many drinks on St. Barts with some Frenchmen, we decided we need more. Instead of walking, we're offered a dinghy ride in what may have been a stolen, slightly deflated inflatable. We don't realize until midway that it's sinking. Somehow we make it, literally falling out of the dinghy onto the dock. I'm told we also made it into a tourism video. haven't seen it, but I'm sure it does St. Barts (and the Frenchmen) Justice. –Zach Stovall |
