Wet Prime Suspect In Transit

Getting around the Caribbean is much more difficult than it looks. Glance at the map, and think that you can fly directly from Colombia to Jamaica or Jamaica to the Dominican Republic. Nope, without a private jet, no chance. Nearly all routes require a stopover in Panama, Miami, or Puerto Rico(US) .So, after being in Panama two weeks ago in transit, we are today in Miami, en route to the Dominican Republic.

Others suggested we take a boat. Which boat would that be? As far as we can tell, there is not a single ferry from country to country that covers any distance. *

* Later, I increased the count from zero to one ( Santo Domingo to San Jaun, a mere 23 hours, for the same price as a 1 hour flight. 3x per week)

The prime suspect (described as female, short hair, short legs, foreign accent, alias mamaflo), as often happens when we go to the US, was pulled aside at passport control for having committed the high crime of speeding in 2002 (not kidding). We all had to wait, but 1 hour to get out of Miami airport is better than average. If you can transit anywhere other than the US, then do so because not only is it very slow, and you can't send bags forward, but they charge each visitor, children included $21, no matter how short your stay ( ESTAs), so for us that is $126 for somewhere we didn't really want to go to this time. Oh, and don't get me started on the service offered by american airlines, all of them. They seem to have attended the Erich Honecker Charm Academy. Panama, on the other hand, has no checks, no costs, through baggage and is much more modern. Service is better, too.

We had planned to go for dinner at Miami Beach, but heavy rain and floods put an end to that idea. Instead, we ate at a Thai restaurant near the Best Western Plus Airport hotel. The plus seems only to be the price, since the extra bed we have to make ourselves.Read more