Sit down, remind me how this is the same old story of growing up and getting lost.

And all the late night calls and all the lost hopes and all the missed connections and the lost directions.


www.bahamas.com

Here’s the abridged version and other randomnesses:

In order to enter the Bahamas, you need one of three forms of documentation: a passport, a notarized birth certificate w/ ID, or a citizenship card. The birth certificate must be notarized. Ian went on a cruise earlier this year and was almost not allowed to board the ship again b/c he didn’t do this. Notaries are not hard to find – we have two at the Brunswick branch of SEB alone.

Each person is allowed to bring 200 cigarettes and one quart of spirits into the country and may leave with one liter of liquor or wine and 5 cartons of cigarettes duty free.

The pay phones no longer take quarters. You have to buy a calling card (issued by the Bahamas Telecommunications Company) to activate them, even if you are dialing a toll-free number. Their emergency number is 919. I don’t know if you need a calling card to dial that one.

Either I’m dumb (chut-up) or the Bahamas is not included as one of the very many countries you can call in and out of w/ Verizon. I couldn’t find it on the list.

There are no nude beaches and public nudity is illegal.

There is a $15 departure tax and a $3 airport security fee to leave.

The voltage and electrical sockets are the same as in the U.S.

Even though they drive on the left there, it is illegal to turn left against the light.

Potcake = mutt