Johnny and I are off to Anguilla where he is spinning at a wedding, and then we'll travel back through St. Maarten. If we're not on the boards too much you'll know why!

Back Monday night 12/10 - play nicely while we're away..

Don't get rum burnt.

We're back.
Had a great time.
This was the view from our room (without us in the chairs).

We made a new friend too.
His name is "Bankie Banx".
He owns this GENIUS club called "The Dune Preserve".
It's the most briliant club I have ever seen.
It's a giant tree house on the beach.
I guess Bankie was (is?) a reggae musician who has played with everyone from Bob Dylan to Jimmy Buffet.
(or something like that)



Bankie Banx

Bankie is an ex-tagger from Loisaida. He made a killing suing the MTA for running over his left foot with the #21 bus in like 1992.

Now he's 'played' everyone for sure, including you!

All that wood is your city tax dollars at work.

He told me he lived in New York.
Leave it to you seven to know the story.

That beach shot makes my head swim. I love living vicariously through you.

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Bankie is an ex-tagger from Loisaida. He made a killing suing the MTA for running over his left foot with the #21 bus in like 1992.

Now he's 'played' everyone for sure, including you!

All that wood is your city tax dollars at work.

Well, seven, then I consider the large joss sticks I was passed at The Dune Preserve ("Banky's Joint") one of the only perks Ive ever gotten on being a NYC taxpayer.

The place was genius at midnight-ish, when we arrived. It had that Black Market afterhours feel, including the cabdrivers lounging on couches waiting to take people home. I LOVE this concept.

Banky himself was quite something to behold. Someone had described him as looking "freeze-dried", and I have to say, he did!

TOO much fun, as was our brief stay on the nudist beach at St. Maarten.

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Oh my that picture is just amazing.... I've never been to these isle's can you give us some tips - where did you stay, what beach was that, is it expensive (if you're not a DJ and being paid!). It looks amazing... but you know ME am such a island gyal... am so happy when am in the Carribean... feel totally free. ahhh bliss...

The spot is called Cap Juluca.
5 bedroom villas with private pools are only $8,075.00 Euros a night!
I highly recommend it.

As far as tips for you Anna Nicole...
just walk though town.

These are the villas.

Wow..... nice.............

Hattie will have to confirm this but I believe the Victorians paved the whole idea of foreign travel, hotels vacations etc.
It was very exclusive and only for the rich.
Now-a-days EVERYBODY takes vacations in foreign lands.
It's very middle class, even lower class (Cancun, Club Med etc.)
So what the rich pay for today is privacy.
You pay for not having to look at middle class people in their bathing suits.
Private little islands like Cap Juluca with private little villas with private little pools. (We even had a private little solarium to sun bath...
privately of course).
When you check in they tell you that there are no locks on the doors at Cap Juluca. (And there aren't!)
You see, there are only rich people and locks are not necessary.
There is a small airport for people to land their private jets (and not see tacky people flying business class).
As the planet gets more and more crowded privacy is more and more valuable.

But yes, it was very nice.



I wanna be rich.

Actually Daddy, the concept of travel being an exclusive province of the rich started in the 1600s (with the European "Grand Tour"). It was the Victorians that ruined travel for the high rollers with their railroads, opening sea bathing resorts wherever it was warm. And for the middle classes, egads! But the Victorians and Edwardians did help popularize travel to far-off locales. After all, they owned all of those places, including St. Martin/Maarten & Anguilla, and it was either the fabulously wealthy or completely destitute who got to go there, either out of adventure or in desperation.

"Where over the world, say where,
You find an island there,
So lovely small with nations free
With people French and Dutch
Though talking English much,
As thee Saint-Martin in the sea ?"

Catchy, ain't it? It's their official song.

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Oh Daddy you should have lived in the days of British Colonialism... you could have been Daddy of the Raj !

Funny but I adore this kind of Leo luxury but I would feel sad not to troll the high street (Dawn Davenport style) for that local trade interraction.

And who cleans all their houses and cooks all their meals and where do those people live? There has to be a working class hood that they reside in, n'cest pas?

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Hattie will have to confirm this but I believe the Victorians paved the whole idea of foreign travel, hotels vacations etc.

You mean imperialsm?

And yes it most definitely is key to not have to look at les miserables when you're trying to have a relaxing vacation. Sometimes you look around an airport lounge and think, "Ugh, flying is for pigs!"

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Well you should know DJ Sammy Jo...
I mean Nancy Isla.
You travel more than any DJ I know.
You have been in more foreign lands than any virus.

And Hattie,
You never cease to amaze me.
So the Victorians WEREN'T the first!
And of course you even know the song!

And Bobby,
The island is very small, about 10,000 people or something like that.
Everybody there seems to be working and happy.
No real class issues that I saw.
They saw the rich people as "income" and were very nice everywhere we went.
Maybe if you are there for a while it's different but it seems to be working just fine.

And Anna Nicole,
Local trade would be all over you!
Unless of course you have lost any more weight!
Every time I see you you are skinnier and skinnier!

Now I'm off to Moscow.
Quite a different scene I should imagine.
Do you have a song for me to sing there Hatches?