Yesterday we took a self-guided walking tour of Barbados, which was nice but not noteworthy. Today we took a tour in St. Lucia. We ate cassava bread with banana catsup, mango jam, and nutmeg jam. We also heard many interesting stories about St. Lucia, some of them true ;-). This was the first day we had any rain at all. The rain was quite heavy for a while. Fortunately, we were under cover stuffing cassava bread in our faces. I put some pictures in the website, if you are interested.

The big mystery is the man who left the cruise yesterday. There are lots of staff all over the ship. I always assumed some of them were security. But Danita saw a real security person, with a large “Security” on their shirt and obviously carrying a gun escort a man about my age off the ship. This was the first time either of us saw a cruise person with an obvious security badge or anybody carrying a weapon of any kind. Not long afterwards, as we exited the ship for our daily walk, we saw the local police with a man about my age sitting in the back seat of the police car leaving the terminal area. So far as we could tell, the man didn’t even have his luggage. Very few people knew what was going on. We couldn’t find any scuttlebutt. I’m pretty sure our room steward knew about it, but he wasn’t talking. I don’t normally think that men my age who have the money to take a cruise would do anything that would merit expulsion in mid-cruise. This appears to be a story that will never be told.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.