Hello Friends! We are here in Valencia, Trinidad and Tobago and we are on our way to Toco and then on to Sans Souci. These places are all on an island called Trinidad which is part of a country known as Trinidad and Tobago we’re on the Camuto road heading north now Trinidad and Tobago as an island in the Caribbean is the southernmost islands in the Caribbean.
So we are right next to Venezuela below us would be Guyana if you were to look on it on a map and to the right of us would be the Atlantic Ocean other islands that you may be familiar with like Barbados, Grenada, and so forth out to the North and North East of us and as you would expect from any tropical island it’s all green you see coconut trees you see lots of natural flora and fauna.
In the area we are in now is more or less like the countryside if you want to put it that way so you’d see more green than normal the trip to the place called Toco is a long Winding Road and I mean long this video goes on for almost two hours and while I would like to talk to you for two hours straight… that is quite an accomplishment I will try but I will go on and off I know lots of you like to hear me talk and Share My Views and talk about things but you know as a human I have to take breaks some time plus you know I’m recording in my home and I can’t ask everybody to just stand still while I talk on a video so if you hear background songs you understand we just turned right onto the Eastern Main Road which is a long main road that extends from the East all the way to the West in the capital of Trinidad which is Port of Spain and we are proceeding East right now the current government has plans to make it that you don’t need to take these main roads and small artery roads in order to get to Toco they plan to build a highway that leads from the current highway to Toco and we are actually gonna pass on some of the rough setting of that road because it’s not by anywhere near completion and you’re going to see that in some of this video anyway this is Valencia
we’re going east and the roads here are not too bad we have a Pitch Lake in Trinidad which is a natural resource and we are lucky to have that that’s what roads are made from pitch and yet still you know our Roots can be deplorable at times so when you get a good road like this to drive on you’re thankful
now if if this is your first time watching JB’s Man Cave I make hundreds of videos if you look on my channel you’ll see hundreds of videos and soon it will be thousands we create many channels uh so we have channels on various things this particular channel is more or less a personal channel of mine that features um my life basically so wherever I go I I will I normally record not only for safety reasons you know but specific road trips so usually I actually do have a camera on all the time as soon as I get in my vehicle I’m driving a truck it’s a D22 frontier with a ZD30 engine and I actually do cover um some items about how to fix to your truck and things related to this model of Nissan so if you have a D22
engine and you want to get some tips on it you can also check my channel for videos online I am not a mechanic by the way but I just like to know how to do stuff to do it myself I’m I’m big into doing it yourself because sometimes in my opinion doing it yourself gets it done right
now this is the main Center if you want to call it out of Valencia besides get a lot more traffic
but typically areas in Trinidad look like this you notice there’s no green and it’s actually the sad part of progress in Trinidad and Tobago for me and that when things started progress it just get rid of all the green I mean I recently created our Trotters video um I’m not affiliated with them but I was recently showing how they meant they were able to create their building and yet still maintain some green so it’s not just all building not just all concrete and I wish people would take that initiative you know you yes you have a house yes you have a business but you know have a little bit of green and it’s sort of like the house on the left you see how it has some green on it but after we passed that house there’s no green at all it’s just Street Building it’s like people have something against plants yeah I know real estate is that a prime but you know come on we need to
aspect it’s also good for your psychology now if we turned right we will head to um Sandy granny but going straight here will take us to the Toco area and this is Valencia Road by the way we just came off of the Eastern main road still going east
and sometimes you don’t know where one thing ends or begins this video also is unique in that it’s always recorded in 2.7 key uh which is 144 zero pixels I I believe that you know I can’t show or I don’t want to mix 5.3 K with with other resolutions and the reason for that is it it’s just you have to degrade or upscale and to me it distorts thing so what I did is footage where I’m driving I normally record in 2.7 key and footage where I pull out my GoPro I returned to record in 5.3 key and if it’s 360 5.6 key and so forth but um I tend to keep videos separate so when I’m actually driving the whole road trip is just me driving and when I stop I actually create another video for that stop and I will relate it somehow to this map so in this video when I stop I will actually show you what video you can look at to see the particular area in detail and that way you can see it in a higher resolution that will come up at some point
we’re still in Valencia and like I said the smallest Countryside so it’s underdeveloped there’s lots of green here that in years to come I’m sure you know watching this road there will be buildings on your left and the right and especially with the government wanting to put a highway through here which has pros and constant um there will be even more businesses more Commerce and so forth I just hope that in part of planning urban planning there’s some consideration you know kept for the green the animal life and nature and so forth
I also myself um You can call me JB if you don’t know again about my channel I’m over the hill guy that likes to remember things in the past and how it is now a lot of my videos tend to be talking about this is how it was in the past and this is how it is now unless it’s something I’m totally new to then well you know I can only talk about the present aspect of it but I like Nietzsche I am actually a vegan which means I do not harm animals I do not eat any animal products no milk no cheese no Dairy no meat and somebody would say in their mind well you know what do you eat well you’d be surprised how much stuff that you do eat is vegan fruits vegetables or starches potatoes rice peas and so forth are all vegan it’s when you add the animal aspect to it that you know you you take away from that
I wasn’t always vegan I became vegan due to certain things certain happenings in my life and I have other videos for that you can always feel free to look at that if you want on my channel
and if you see me um suddenly go silent and pause that’s simply because I’m making notes taking a break whatever you know like I said I can’t talk uh constantly in fact in my normal life I hardly talk in school growing up people always just wonder how I was so quiet by any chance I’m very conservative and very quiet and you may think well how could we you be conservative and quiet and creating videos like this and showing yourself and talking about stuff well actually when I first started this Channel I didn’t talk at all I created videos and I would use these text boxes to share information about why I was going you know for me hearing my voice was of no interest to me and uh you know if the idea was just to disseminate information well then I would just share a text box with the information but people kept nagging me to talk and and there were some videos where it was necessary to talk for instance when I was talking about um being a parent of special needs children I would talk about that you know [ __ ] you can’t use text boxes for that or my life as a vegan or whatever and um people realize oh so you do talk and they wanted me to talk on all my videos so well I started to do that it’s it is a lot more work to talk than sharing a text box because you know it’s easier to just you know throw up some music put a text block when when um there’s something relevant and move on from there but you know talking takes a quite a bit of doing especially from somebody that’s conservative and quiet so why do I talk besides people wanting me to well this video is for my children my whole channel is for the purpose of helping my children and so I do this for them and I am driven as a father and that’s your whole purpose in addition to that I like sharing uh where I go with you so you feel like you tag along with me and like it’s almost like we’re in this truck we’re driving on the road and you are there with me and we’re checking things out and we would be talking
so that’s kind of like how I create my videos on what my channel is about you can see this route is pretty good isn’t it
it’s because they’re doing a lot of preparation for the highway or whatever
a lot of good road here that did not exist before they have drainage only left
and so forth
Valencia is a bit hilly and where we’re going to talk is mountainous
ultimately I am actually going to this trip all the way to a place called Matelot which is as far as you can go uh driving north east and then headed back West I have other videos where I went from west to east using the North Coast Road but the North Coast Road has an end to it and I covered all of that so this is sort of like going around Trinidad to get to the other end that you can access now you may be wondering why did I go to the right well do as you can see the road on the left is not finished
and um because it’s cut out and there are a lot of homes I have to kind of go right to left right to left but don’t worry there’s no um there’s no I I well I shouldn’t say that no because because vehicle just passed but I can’t see vehicles coming from quite a distance and you’ll notice the road is very clear which I’m glad about so the route here is really bad and not simply because they are working on it
uh the part here I’m actually walking on a lot of driving on walking driving on a lot of um gravel and whatever base they use for the um Road and some points are not accessible so I can’t for instance turn left because turn left turn left is close the door is closed so I have to go wrong anti-clockwise along this roundabout so I guess when everything is finished then I will have it access accessible for everybody but right now it’s closed off so I’m on this side of the road
at some points of this road gets really dusty you’ll see that and some people will drive on it as do it was a clear paved Highway
you see that just now you can see how many potholes of Rockford is
I guess in future videos You’ll see here nicely pivot Highway all the way to Toco and um people in case you’re wondering why would they build a highway to a Countryside area well I believe the plan is is that once they get this highway to Toco then they can build a port for access to our sister Island Tobago
right now people in order to get to Tobago by ferry boat or ship they have to start out for the spin they have to go around the western side of Trinidad through a place called The Dragon mouth which is very very rough seas and then they have to go north east towards Tobago and it makes the trip really long so if some if people can’t drive to a port in Tobago then in Toco then to get it Tobago would you triple only be maybe 10 minutes 15 minutes oh probably that’s exaggerate maybe 30 minutes but anyway it would not be four and five hours of rough Seas
there were there was talk um
when a country was a little more uh how to put it wealthy I want to say wealthy but there wasn’t a struggle with money or cash flow um oil prices were very high uh there was talk about building a bridge from Toco to Tobago it has been done in other countries we were told by the government that that isn’t feasible the other the other the other considerations was a tunnel because you know you can while you building above water is one aspect but you can also dig a tunnel below ground but I don’t think that’s feasible either so it looks like fairies
shockers driving really fast and kicking up a storm look at it takes up my um visibility wow
now look at all five years huh she is whomever is driving not a driver’s side I tend to be he
say yes this road is really bad at the moment still under construction
but this cuts out a lot of other roads that we would have had to take if we wanted to get Toco and another Direction you you know passing through Sangre Grande and that would have been a longer trip but in another video on my way back from Matelot I will be passing through Sonic running so you get to um a different route to return to border spin so you can see where you going
now in case you don’t know about the islands of Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago it was once a British colony it had a strong influence in past Centuries by the Spaniards from Spain by the French and the original inhabitants would Carib Indians there are wax as well
and throughout the centuries we’ve picked up a bit of everything from you know the Local Natives the French the English and the Spanish
however the British was the last to occupy owned an Administration around until we became independent
and after Independence we became a republic and so we are fully a Sovereign Nation despite being such a small group of islands I didn’t understand this truck it’s almost like he didn’t want to drive on his side of the road I have um videos for crazy driving by the way because there’s so much of it in this country that’s one aspect of survival here you have to watch how you drive to drive very defensively so we plan to come to Trinidad to drive around make sure to not play around be very careful
so you’re trying to be good as a Sovereign Nation and um we use the parliamentary system which we took from the British we have a president a prime minister he has a cabinet as a opposition leader the Senators and so forth
very similar to the um British system book with some differences
we use the Trinidad and Tobago dollar as the currency one Trinidad and Tobago dollar at this time is around just under 7 U.S dollars
what am I seeing one US dollar is around seven Trinidad Tobago dollars
and I thought I was sounding crazy there I would be really good if one Trinidad and Tobago dollar could get this seven US Dollars anyway so to get an idea of what one US dollar can buy that is seven trying to make a dollars um a loaf of bread at this point in time well right now as I’m creating this video there’s a war going on in Ukraine between Russia and Ukraine and I actually do create videos about that too because I believe in supporting the Ukrainians the people of Ukraine and I like to promote helping them and so forth anyway because of that war wheat prices oil prices on everything like that has just skyrocketed however in the making of this video which is in June 2022 I well it’s one thing about Trinidad too you will get to know if you ever come here is prices vary a lot so a loaf of bread would be one price by a person and another personal place will sell for a completely different price however in general you could get a loaf of bread for around 2 U.S uh to give you an idea because people like to use bread as a way to assess what is the the value of money here as far as fuel um one of the natural resources of Trinidad is oil oil production and although that’s another whole debate and talk as far as the production goes but anyway we have a lot of oil and gas here and because of that we should be getting the ability of to use oil and gas cheaply which we do which the government does subsidize and which to me should be normal I mean it shouldn’t be like Fanfare because we get a subsidy for that no reason I say that is because look at an example of Alaska which has huge oily Zeus and they actually um pee by the way let me pause it if you go right you’ll go to Sonic Randi as we go left here we are going to Toco and this is Toco mineral
so let me just make a note of that
um so that was I talking about yeah so we have oil reserves gas reserving a place like Alaska where they have um oil huge oil deposits they actually pay the residence money for selling that resource so every prison in Alaska gets money as residents for selling part of the land or the resource of oil so in that way the U.S subsidizes in that aspect here the government subsidizes it directly at the pump so as um eventually won Ukraine and Russia um VP Lots less for for fuel than a lot of other countries right now in the U.S oil is going at around 6 us up to six U.S a gallon
whereas here well we sell our oil our gas in liters so I would be like what um for 12 for some 21 14 2 us so we’ll be paying like around 2 U.S well a little more than two years per gallon which is pretty good right and I’m talking by the way I should clarify I’m talking about diesel because I only buy diesel for those driving um cars and they use gas they have gas engines the um those turbine engines will will have to pay more diesel is very low for us to keep Transportation down because most of the transportation is done by diesel here Maxis good vehicles and so forth because if that goes up all the other things go so diesel is cheap we pay around 3 40 to 390 for it this will be 341 390 TT uh per liter however let’s say a car using um premium
um another that would cost them over 60t
so they’d be almost double uh what European diesel so for them it would be around four us a gallon which is still good
compared to other parts of the world
no math was never my best subject I’m more of an art person
yeah I do coding as well which is strange has nothing related to art but um it helps in my web development because whereas when I’m coding a page or whatever I don’t have to you know give some graphic person so that I do it myself but I’m not good at math so if my maths are off feel free to um correct me in the commentary of my YouTube channel however if you do make sure you know you know you’re not adding to my errors if there are errors because sometimes people misconstrue what I see or added or misinterpreted make sure you know what you’re seeing
I don’t mind being corrected at all but if you’re gonna correct make sure you give any good information
so as we on this road you can see how long and whining it is this basically is the whole world all the way from here
um which is probably what in the mature area I’m not sure yet uh this is a long East coast of Trinidad Northeast going all the way to Toco the roads are like this I want to sit like this the same kind of look as it is now but also winding it may look flat which in some cases it is but we are actually gradually ascending I don’t know if you can tell from the video
but we are making a gradual ascent
it’s like that for the whole trip it’s a gradual or some gradual gradual gradual until you realized wow you’re you’re really in the mountains no
now unlike maracas you you know where you on that trip on South Road or the North Coast Road to Maracas Beach Bay which is another area of Trinidad you you have a tendency to have a lookout area and you could see but that’s not the case in on this road you see a lot of green for a while until you get back to the coast and then you see a lot of beaches and while you may see some on your way to Togo you on your way from Sans Souci to Matelot wow you really see a lot
that personally right is selling something called um preserved pineapple
what they do is they cut the pineapple they soak it in a water vinegar sugar salts depending on the person they use something called Shadow venue which is a it actually is sort of like a weed and people chop it up and use it like a seasoning grows onion everywhere they mixed up with salt pepper black pepper and they put it in a bag and Shake It Up and they people eat it I’m not really a fan of those things I mean if somebody gave me I would try but foods to me should be eaten as they are
fruits are alkaline and when they are just right not green but ripe the a very good for your body and they act as cleanses and you may not know about fruits do not require digestion so they just pass through your body giving you a nutrients energy and you don’t have to worry about it making you feel tired or whatever like you would with potatoes or anything like that because fruits are just great
however when you start a soak it in chemicals and add salt and add this and add that but they’re not just you know cuts the whole affair right there
I like eating healthy as you would notice but I am not a nutritionist and so do not take anything I see as medical advice do you own research
something else that they also sell here too is a lot of preserves which did uh I believe the Chinese actually started here so you got something called red plums Red Mango red cherries these are all fruits that they take and they preserve them and uh sort of a salt sweet format
I’ve seen a lot of those when I was younger but I don’t anymore for the same reasons I just gave you
did I see that bus that we just passed there that’s how our bosses used to look we have more modern buses that you may have seen in my other videos now and the government is actually going to switch to electric buses just now I want to see how that works out anyway those old bosses that’s how people used to get our own but now um they are used privately the government who controls the bus system here so them often a lot of people bought them because they are far bigger than Maxis and others to transport people so they bought them painted them in different colors put in big sound systems and use it to transport people for road trips you tend to see them more in country areas not in a city I guess where they’re moving a lot of people
but anytime you see one of those expect a lot of people going somewhere so they are probably on the same destination to where I am going
we far and a lot of other parts of well not this video in particular because this video has many parts because this trip on a day that I did this trip actually took the better part of I would say
eight hours nine hours just you know driving stopping going so forth it was really long
time right there that is where you would you would go to um to the turtles sea turtles the commonly lay their eggs but as I understand and you need to go in there with a guy the kindness will go in for yourself a lot of silly people like the poach on do harm to the eggs and into themselves I just don’t understand that
but that’s an aspect of Tourism over here you can see a lot of Turtles coming they also come into parts of Toco as well
and sometimes you’ll get a bridge like that that’s singular you can just single lean traffic
now sometimes I will pause this video like I’m thinking about pausing it now to just take a quick break but here’s the irony of when you pause a video do you know that if you are talking and you decide let me stop the video take a break and come back it’s it’s highly likely that your tone pitch and the song of your voice will change I don’t know why that is probably you just have to get back into the groove and in the case of me where I don’t really talk a lot um my voice is like my throat is like killing me right now so I need to take a break and drink some water and so forth probably all of that you know adds it so I’m gonna take a break when I say I take a break you may not notice a difference but if my voice on each changes you know why so you can keep watching here as we go green
okay I’m so I’m back after my break did you notice it was like a Time Warp do you hear anything different about my voice pitch song anything do I sound normal anyway so there are a lot of offshoot roads on this road main road but go to other things nature reserves other beaches Trails as I’ve said in many of my other videos when you are driving in Trinidad if you just stick to the main road well then you’ll just see the main things people know but a lot of times if you just take a off shoot road it will take us to something that nobody else is aware of something interesting just make sure it’s not private land or you’re not trespassing on somebody’s land but once it’s a public rule you know take it and see where it goes that’s the that’s part of the adventure of and the uniqueness of Trinidad I don’t know if it’s like that for all the other Islands because you’ve only got another Island near Champion you don’t know the place so you don’t want to venture to somewhere that you don’t know and you get lost so you tend to stick with the mean touristic places that people advise you to go but if you feel a little adventurous you can always take a road and see where it takes you
now we are still continuing North towards Toco
and I know there’s a lot of green but to our right is actually the coastline the ocean but you can’t really see it from here because there’s a lot of walls there’s a lot of green a lot of houses but at some point we’re gonna get there like I said the trip is long and the roads are winding and there are times that you may feel like wow it never stops
and when I actually started this wardrobe I didn’t start in Valencia like I did from this video I started from Port of Spain so you had that whole trip from Port of Spain to Valencia and then then start starting this particular video so in addition to the long trip here there’s a even longer trip depending on where you come from I could only imagine somebody had to come from let’s say library or San Fernando or princess Tong or whatever but I I do wonder if you were coming from San Fernando would you go through um have a kids
on those areas to get to here or would you go up the highway
thin East and then recital Valencia like I did how do you know me or how would you normally get to Toco because you could use the highway or you could could use a lot of back roads but I don’t know which one would be faster or more fuel efficient
okay let me know in the comments area by the way uh maybe as we’re here we can talk a little bit about the comments area of my YouTube channel I I always restrict the comments that are allowed on my channel simply because some people will use it as a means to just roll just hit just Spam or be unkind to other people somebody else besides myself might make a comment and then somebody will come and terrorize them for that comment and I you know I am not for that I’ve I don’t mind disagreeing but I believe in disagreeing cordially you know with respect for each other and I’m sharing of you but not going overboard and there’s a difference between counter attacking the position and counter-attacking the person let me just pause that he said we just passed a resort there I don’t know if you notice it I haven’t been in a that Resort but it looks really nice
if you have been there please let me know about it
so this is this Salybia beach on the right and when I say this is I mean this is the bridge and here I created a video where I came out and looked through it you can see that in the video that’s on your screen now look for it on my YouTube channel if um I recorded it in 5.3k
another time I will actually head out to the beach I mean where’s the the main Beach beaches that people know in Trinidad or pictures like Maracas Los Cuevas and so because they are they are big and they they seem to be just right for swimming and breathing and so there are many other beaches in China not so popular but nevertheless can be used good discussion and when I say discussion they may not have life God they may not have
um people that can help you or rescue you if you’re in trouble and the waters may be very rough so you you have to be aware when you go to these places anyway so back to my comments yeah so the I don’t use like other people just like whatever comments just go up there and all kind of um we say in Trinidad “chupidness” which means “stupidness” and uh just let it let them run you know I this is a family-friendly site if a child was going to read what she said I would want them I would want to feel confident that it’s it’s fine
what it means is me the most heat I have ever seen in comments was is for some of my Ukraine videos believe it or not the uh propagandists who come on those videos and spew all kind of garbage against people on the wall and stuff anything else really terrible I know I know some of you may think or you know JB’s Man Cave videos about Trinidad and yeah I have a lot of videos in Trinidad because well of course I’m here right now but um when I go to other places it’ll be videos on those places and so forth and occasionally I will start making videos on a particular place and put that up and you’ll start seeing more videos on that oh well there’s lots of cover in Trinidad as as even though the island is small there’s so much aspects that and some people just love these road trips because it brings back memories it brings back things that the Sony they remember in the past and they want to see how it is now some of it relatively looks the same on yet there are improvements here and there
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now you can see on this rule there are no reels are so like anything else you have to be careful how you’re driving if this road was wet it was raining and you skid It Off you could quickly find yourself down not river cliff
um because you know these roads aren’t for speeding you have to take your time
and one of the things about Trinidad is the weather I mean Toronto Bay go to weather could be rainy one day and not even one day one or what could be rainy next hour could be sunny next hour could be something else and so forth it really depends on the clouds the wind the the um tropical waves coming from Africa and so forth so
like this is really good I mean it is cloudy there is a bit of Sahara and dust in here which also causes problems with recording because it makes everything look Gray but besides that um when you do get a song it is like you just have to venture we just passed Balandra Beach Resort on the right there if you have been there let me know in the comments area
those are some other places that you know at some point I guess if I had a chance
um I will go when you when I’m going on these long trips I usually have my family with me it’d be kind of selfish for me to drive all this way and not take my family along so I make sure to take them along it’s great for company too so it’s I can’t really stop everywhere because they are with me too especially my children you know I have to kind of keep going to keep time
too many stops makes the trip longer Money Shop is too long you’re gonna mix for frustrated Young Minds
I like that retaining wall on your right now that’s what you call a retaining wall unlike somewhere I’ve seen where they they just dropped a few bricks on quality retaining wall
now whenever you’re driving someone you see Vehicles parked on a Green Space just like that and nothing is seeming near wrong it could be that there are
going to hunt or there’s a trail or there’s a beach nearby that’s not popular
so don’t just think they’ll just parked there for the heck of it
so while we’re here we could talk about so many things that are going on in Trinidad because of what’s going on anywhere we are ping a lot of money for food um like anywhere else anywhere but however even before the Ukraine Russian war the food prices here would increase for no particular reason and just because yeah they could increase it that’s one of the issues here in Trinidad where things go up but you know while somebody could charge more for the stuff I put the owner straight on the consumer because the consumer has the power to say you know what I’m not I’m not paying for that I remember some years ago potatoes in France went up by five cents five cents in all in this case five francs or in the user anyway but the point is it went up by a marginal amount and nobody in France would buy potatoes so truck loads of potatoes spoil and they were forced to bring back bring down the price of potatoes but here it’s like things go up by a holder two dollars three dollars five dollars and they buy it more or they buy like you know whatever and you know sometimes TV Crews or go and interview these people while they’re buying especially food and they will say in my mind and in my opinion silly things like well you have to pay the price whatever you know and I’m like no you don’t have to pay the price you could choose to eat something different you could choose to say you know what I am not going to pay that price for that food bring it down no there are certain things and you know that’s in relation to a lot of fast foods I’m talking about foods that you buy outside you have a choice you don’t have to buy food outside things you have to buy is you know the basic things maybe flour rice whatever vegetables but buying outside food if it’s too much money don’t buy it but not training strings we love the belly as they see here they just love the food and they are in many instances will entertain whatever it price they have to pay in order to get it and a lot of food establishments capitalize on that to the point of ridiculousness you know I could buy a roti which is a an Indian sandwich if you want to call it like that it’s wrapped in flour and inside your root you can have various things you know potato, channa, pumpkin, bodi, whatever um I could buy that in one place like let’s say I could buy that for 25 dollars in one establishment and then there’ll be another establishment giving me the exact same Roti the exact same taste the exact same size and it will be fifty dollars no joke why would I go to a place under fifty dollars for a roti I mean that’s a consumer Choice nobody’s forcing you and it’s not like you must have that roti but for some trainers yes I guess they must have it and if it costs them 50 60 whatever they will pay it I just don’t get it I’m not that kind of person
there are also other issues that um go on in the country for a long while like um crime and sometimes I will read comments in my YouTube channel about crime in Trinidad and crime everywhere well the only problem I have with that comparison is that crime everywhere and crime in Trinidad is different we have different laws we are just on an island you can’t really Escape you know it’s not like the bigger countries where you know if something is going on in one area or one state you go to the next state um no it’s not like that here usually if you’re having real serious issues and people are after you everybody will know where you are and where you’re located that’s one of the aspects of crime here that I don’t think people can compare and there are people that are being targeted trafficked and and so forth It’s a serious issue and sometimes people don’t like to acknowledge it
for instance let’s take the angle of the amount of murders and one of the past weekends was 15. just consider that 15 people were murdered in a tiny Island like Trinidad and you know you have to think where else in the world where we consider a place stable um Progressive a tropical island and so forth and you hear 15 people dying on weekends murdered um yeah you could point to other places too that may have similar like I believe Jamaica I heard some things going on in Guyana and so forth but there’s this feeling that because it’s happening other places it’s okay for it to happen here and I have a strong disagreement with that because it happens elsewhere doesn’t mean it should happen here at all a murder should be on a once in a blue moon Affair and usually um you know when I was a kid growing up the murder rate was around 50 to 84 the entire year just think about that and most of the murders were surround the surrounding domestic affairs and um there used to be a time when I talked about this in some of my other videos the chromosome murders where people would you know had a domestic fight one would kill uh the one person in their partner and then they would drink Gramaxone and commit suicide and those are the kind of murders you heard about not all the scan Warfare you know uh human trafficking drugs and all that it’s a whole different um Capital right now now here we are at uh Sena Bay I’ll call it
and again I stopped and take took pictures recorded one video but that isn’t another video for you to see so if you want to see it you can look up that video on my YouTube channel like I said the reason I do that is because on this recording I’m using 2.7 key and when I record from my other camera I’m using 5.3 key so I don’t want to mix on much and plus you know the journey would be even longer for you if I showed you every little thing that I recorded you know this video would be three hours long
and this is an example of how you can see you can stop and see different places along the way
I mean Beach fronts you see more of this here on the north east coast than you do anywhere else in Trinidad as far as I’m away I don’t know I haven’t been down south west I have to go Icacos, Cedros those areas maybe you can see there’s plentiful but here as far as being in the North if you really want to see lots of beaches just north East Coast Drive will allow you to see a lot of beach Farms bays and so forth
no I touched on on a crime on the murder rate but some people will write me you know it’s Trinidad safe and they may sound a little bit like apprehensive but let me tell you it’s I don’t walk down the street feeling like if any at any moment somebody can rob me no I do not feel like that I feel relatively safe I feel like I can do go about my Daily Business Without interference and so forth like everything else you just need to be away um sometimes I’ll help people skip the argument for instance like oh I like to wear big gold chains and I should be able to do that yeah you should be able to but given these circumstances would you so you know I would not wear a gold chain I don’t wear gold anyway but if I would if the kind of person over a coach I wouldn’t walk down let’s see um for the spin with a big gold chain on no not somebody could probably pass them and try to take it off me so like anything else you just need to be aware keep your hours to daytime go with friends go in groups don’t go to isolated areas don’t get yourself lost once you do those things you should be fine you should be you know if you just visit 10 year old should enjoy St um
is relatively safe in that regard for you know day-to-day affairs crime has touched people and once you know crime touches you in a big way um you don’t forget it like for instance when I was in my 20s I was at a church and while at Church my vehicle was too long that’s right and because of that experience I take precautions in my 50s now for how I treat my vehicle yeah that’s right so you don’t want to be messing around with the crack the criminal element you might think oh my chick my vehicle isn’t a church it should be fine no they couldn’t Target you even there however it’s not an there’s no need for a paranoia and if crime has touched you now a really bad way I know it can affect you for life especially in cases of rape or mood of a loved one or so forth you know if those things haven’t happened to you we you shouldn’t put down people who may feel um or still trying to get over these psychological effects of that because once crime touches you in a way it can happen forever for life this is an example on the right of another beachfront where you know you could I you know I there’s so many beaches like I said that I could have stopped here and recorded it unfortunately I didn’t at this time because we just needed to get where we were going and time was just going by but man I could stop here and record all day this this kind of footage you know really beautiful
and the nice thing of the the beaches here is this right on the road so you know you could basically just pull off the road and buy me on the beach
what else can we talk about
so I talked about a little bit about what fuel prices prices of food Chinese buying a long crime a lot of you all like to all right to me about that
you notice a video I have to put up just now a video about um how they still
cable wires these are all those cables any um you know any shot right now endless cables I mean so many uh it’s so unsightly at times not those high tension cables you know the lower ones the carrying telephone lines cable TV and so forth well basically criminals are going around and stealing low so they could get a copper to sell is a big metal export industry in Trinidad and Tobago so much so that there are little trucks now if you haven’t been to China in a long while there are trucks that drive around every day sometimes twice a day um asking for your old junk on your metal because they make money that way but however they find us not enough the criminal element that is they have decided that they were going to cut the wires so people’s phone goes down your cable goes down your internet goes wrong because they are cutting cable to get at the copper so we go and sell it so I’ve recently have been talks about the government to possibly put the law preventing the export of metals because it’s not just the copper this is how how prison some trainees are they go and they cut water pipes water pipes you know that is taking water the whole communities they go and cut that leave the water running so that they could take the metal and sell it so they don’t care about our whole community that might be counting or not they do the same with pumps um Road rails all kinds of those things to get at the metal if you will metal and you were standing there long enough they would take you too they’re just elements in society they just do not care about anybody so long as they can make money off of it they will do it it’s a small sector of society but there’s even though they are small they have a big impact
so that’s currently in your books I don’t know if that will be made of a law does the big yard guest house we’re passing on the left sort of a good measure to let you know where you are you can refer to a map
if I recall correctly that is one of the biggest structures that you will see on your way to KO not love
everything else gets smaller and smaller and in terms of structural size
and the roads also get narrower
some of you are very much against the um
the problems of the pandemic by the way we’re in Cumana right now
and you may be wondering why I suddenly cut to this is because the battery died I mean uh camera and I needed to change it
so I stopped I was just I just lost maybe about 20 30 feet and doing that wasn’t much so continue to drive yeah some of you don’t like all the precautions governments took about the pandemic and even most of those of you abroad don’t like the affected Trinidad and Tobago is so stringent about people uh coming from about to Trinidad I have to go through all kinds of testing and stuff well uh come July the 17th 2022 The Mask restriction is supposed to be lifted so you don’t have to wear masks when you’re outside you can’t see what will be for foreigners but um put it in or whatever but that is going to be great because this is my waistline is getting really big from being home too much I try to exercise one but it’s not the same as me go and I think I could run a good hike and you know I I have tried to run before with a mask can I it it just can’t happen even walking vigorously with a mask on is difficult look at that wouldn’t hold something left I would look really good I like to see those things you should see a lot of wooden houses and look at our church on your right I really like to see these all structures you know you should see a lot of wooden houses when I was um as a child you would see a lot of that in places like this in the countryside but no everything is taken over by concrete and you can hardly see wooden structures anymore so when I do see one so well preserved that that’s kind of exciting
yeah so even if we walk in vigorously it’s really hard to do with a mask on so I just said you know I’m not doing that you know when I first started the the authorities used to say come out and say oh when you run you can run with a mask and I said you know what you guys do not run that’s why you see that but I can tell you it’s a niche of humans to see things that they know nothing about huh I mean I wouldn’t dare tell a doctor how to do his job or a lawyer how to do his job because you know those are just not my professions not my area of expertise but here you have these people and normal Italian people go and run with a mask on that’s that’s just crazy especially for business I mean I you know when I do run when I get back to running and I want to do five miles there’s no way I could allow the mask on you’re looking for you know health issues
so I’m glad that mask is going to come off and it’s in my plan to do certain things when not mass Monday comes off and I I really can’t do it now because of it so when that comes off look out for some really cool videos that I plan to make did you know that too they even made a law here to show you how stringent the laws here would um for the pandemic cover 19. you if you wanted to get in your vehicle and drive with your family your family you had to have a mask on
imagine you had to drive without your mask on everybody everybody in the vehicle is part of your family yeah your wife your son your children whatever and you had see that guy that he’s picking up he thought he got a good mango but then he realized nah not good that’s a nice thing about being in Trinidad you could get fruits just everywhere almost but Oklahoma with anybody’s yard get a fruit please honestly tree the leaves on the branches is behind the wall of somewhere somebody’s yard you can’t go in the prisons you are together if the branch is over the wall and in a public area or in your property then you can pick the fruit of that tree
so you and your car you you you have this mask on and you know you’re not walking or running but just imagine you’re on a road trip like this and you’re driving for hours and you have that mask on it’s really frustration and any police is a checker that you would stop you and see if you had a mask on or this thing and I just thought that that was kind of silly man
anyway that was done away with some time ago you must man it is still on if you take public transportation though you have to have a mass and that part I couldn’t understand another way in a mask while you’re driving on your phone anyway I just hope this whole thing is over with and there is an Alcove 2023 or whatever any future I guess that would be called covet 23. I still hear doctors coming up and say you know this variant or not variance who has done the last and what not but um
you know one thing this pandemic has shown us is generally generally people who are unhealthy the elderly or had pre-existing conditions were the ones most likely most likely to have adverse effects from covid-19 virus those who are healthy fit what not not so much yes one or two out of millions will fit may have still succumb but in general once people were healthy and fit and they were doing their I think they may get the virus but it would attack you just like any common cold you feel a few symptoms what not and then you overcome it and you go on but mostly people are seem to have succumb to the covid-19 virus was to be unhealthy and so I would dare see not being a medical professional not being anybody expert in nutrition or anything but you know if you live a healthy lifestyle keep yourself well exercise and whatnot whatever future pandemic may come you will better be able to handle it at least that’s my opinion what are your thoughts in your life are you doing things to prepare for the future knowing what you went through or you just you know eat whatever Couch Potato lifestyle sit down most of the time any day feel free to give your comments in the commentary of my YouTube channel when you do that please do say what you’re answering because you’ll notice that in my videos I like to interact with you guys I want to get feedback on you know as a video issue and I can’t stop the answer question I mean as we don’t we haven’t reached our technological level yet but you can’t answer me in the comments area and you you should have noticed by now that I do answer all comments I do read all comments as well
so I will always you know be interested in what you have to say and I like to get other people’s Viewpoint too because
um it helps me to learn and evaluate
you know things that I would have thought about years ago I don’t think that way anymore
if any of you are lovers of Bruce Lee um Bruce Lee the martial artist would know that did he used to come on television and um he would talk a lot about his philosophical ideas and whatnot and then he will come in another interview and see that he no longer believes in that and he will tell his new philosophical ideas and I used to be I used to be like what but then I realized that’s part of growth you know you may think I certain way now and through learning through um
experiencing other things that you had an experience before you your thought process the way you see things your perspective and Outlook changes and therefore your own ideas of how you approach things also changes
and if you if you’re humble enough and and for me I go with the you know humble means teachable if you’re teachable if you can learn something from others you’re not too proud that you feel nobody can tell you anything or you already know everything then you know it’s not going to be mean anything for you but even if Bruce Lee could who was considered one of the greatest martial arts artists any rules could could change his ideas evolve on looms so can anybody else
I know some of you will be listening to me and thinking oh this guy talking absolutely absolutely rubbish and that’s fine too if you have something that you feel you could add no you see that road on your left you could actually take that as a shortcut to where are we going we’re gonna stay with the old main road and I think we actually bounce up with that car but this will give you an idea the reason I want to take this route is because there’s a breakoff in this road one goes to a nearby beach one of the main Toco beaches that everybody likes by the way we are in Toco more or less now and uh you can either go to that beach and a lighthouse or you can turn left and start heading towards Sans Souci um Matelot and so forth so I wanted to show you that cut off so you can know the difference when you come across it
foreign
to the right is giving you the directions to the beach
I’m showing you the road here
so you can see where we are
hello root
Chic technical Beach and then Paria Main Road to the left which is where we will continue
so we are continuing here on fire main road
so this is what you would take if you want to go to sound Susie you want to go to Matelot
and so forth today we pretty much have reached as far north as we can go as far as roads go because their off shoot roads will take it to the coast but now we are actually heading back West on the Northern side of China if that makes any sense you can always look it up on the map to see
so this is all Toco and eventually we’ll start heading into others and one of the really nice things about this part of Trinidad which you know I hardly ever coming to come came here before as a child but not as an adult so a lot of this was bringing back memories you see the car thank you we came across that car before and it took a left let’s see where it got to
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one of the nice things about this Wii is only right you do drive around the coast a lot so unlike other places where you tend to drive in the mountains you can’t see the war turns before this drive you will see a lot of these sea lion coast and be able to stop multiple times if you want to take pictures however even though the sea looks inviting it has a nice Emerald color that you don’t see in other parts of Trinidad which tends to be dark blue a lot of people have reminded me that this is because of the Orinoco bring in mud Waters I also like to think it’s also the depth of the ocean especially around um the West and Northwest of terms very deep and also absolute gullible hits shallow you can see Beach you can see a beachfront right there already on your right
um because he is a bit shallow and you don’t have the elements of your Orinoco the water is a nice emerald green color as you would expect in the Caribbean
however the water is very rough and rocky sand is not as you would expect and if you want to get an idea make sure to look at my mission B video
you see how you can see the beach bees and stuff on your idea I mean you I you know each one of these I could just keep stopping stopping let me record but you know my job is to reach my plot today you won’t see my plot in this video you’ll see it in the next video but we are going towards San Souci right now
and on the way there we will pass through other places
I love some of these little communities the way they do the the houses you know um patios and stuff that they created maintaining that
you know Countryside or Beach like afternoon so this is Mission Bay we come out to and just as I said before I have specific videos for each of these when I stop and we you can see me pulling here but as soon as I pulled in I was like oh my goodness that sun is an hour 4×4 but don’t let us fool you that sun you could sink in our sun and make your vehicle stick especially if it’s um heavy so I said you know what I’m keeping out here and I made a mission B video for you to have a look at where I talk about that B it’s not a place that you can really swim maybe you get your feet wet but like I said a lot of beaches here it’s really rough and Rocky
so if you want to get an idea of that stop make sure look for that video in the description of this um
this video itself I will have links to all those videos so you don’t necessarily have to search just look in the description and you’ll be able to see a link towards those videos so as I stop you can look at those look at that bling on your left that looks really cool I don’t know if that’s meant to be a hotel somebody’s place or what but it looks really good I mean to be all the way out here I’m getting that facility better extravagant if anybody who knows what that’s gonna be feel free to comment on my YouTube channel be interested to know and one of the reasons I like when you all comment and your commenting about you know Source information that you have is it helps educate all of us you know if you’re gonna just comment and tell me a guess about what that could be but if you I mean I don’t mind you guessing huh but see you guys don’t see it like it was a [ __ ] so tell us you know it’s oh this is my opinion or um this is my idea or this is my guest don’t say it is going to be this I don’t know it’s really I you really don’t know if it’s if that is true so why did I stop here sometimes when I stop it’s because we see something to the side of the road but you don’t catch in camera sometimes I’ll spring a little waterfall um and you want to capture that
so I’m thinking you see a lot here too is beach houses especially on your right
right on the ocean
I can’t imagine unless I was actually living there having a beach house because there would be so much to maintain the sea salt is corrosive and basically damages everything you know you can’t have a lot of metals or you’ll have to be replacing your Metals constantly if you have a vehicle you have to have to be washing it because regularly
okay
so I had um kind of pull to the left into the green and I’ll take it away from those Vehicles that’s because you as you can see the road is very small
do you know if if people who live here are driving on the road they will be you know they know where every pothole is where every corner is the speed adjusts whatever so they’ll be driving a lot faster but I you know I’m more careful because I do not know the exact location of everything was coming there’s this is really nice the screen here and there isn’t a barrier on the right so if you make a wrong move you’re scared or whatever you literally will be falling into the ocean
well enough taxis pass here
while we’re driving we hardly saw any
car thing
if any of you know about the taxis and what the fares I mean what are tactical from mat Lots all the way to Sangre Grande
or whatever and how much it costs if you know please let me know in the comments area of my uh YouTube channel
by the way I just thought of something if any of you are seeing people reuse the content of my video and you know that it’s not JB’s monkey please let me know one thing I don’t like is plagiarism where and people are just copying your stuff and use it for using it for their own benefit I just do not like that that’s unfair it takes a lot of time for me as a father of special needs children to come and record this edit it publish it take my time to sit down and talk and you know somebody just know firstly come and just grab it for their own use and even make money off of it for themselves or gain popularity I mean that’s that’s really unfair don’t do that please just as I have to respect the fact that I can’t just go anywhere and just record whatever I mean I like like I have in other videos I would love to um record Carnival or record the inside of some place but I know I have to respect whatever the law is or whatever the wishes of the person or persons are because I can’t just do stuff and the owners are new to is also to respect me by keep allowing my stuff to just deal with this I want my stuff on YouTube my channel where ver I gain from it helps my children
now I have a video about one of the places that’s coming up here this by the way this Villages I would like to call it L’Ance Noire now I’m sure there’s probably a local version of pronunciation for that you know like for instance they don’t say psalm 1. it just says someone and you know that’s not really how it’s meant to be pronounced but you know everything’s picked up based on the dialect anyway you see this this Beach area here that’s really nice [..] some um I am going to stop in a little while when I stopped here I was able to find a special Cove a nice Beach there was nobody around and I took pictures or video of it from multiple angles because it was just really nice to look at and it was so nice to look at that I made three videos out of it one in 360 one in in um well two in 360 one just with my regular GoPro and so forth and yeah well if you count this one this will be the fourth but this is that Rocky Coastline you just don’t see that in other parts of Trinidad where you could just look at the beach look at all the surround any course to ride it looks really nice
the thing that definitely is a problem with Coastal erosion here though you can see a lot of the barriers and the uh roads have been eaten up properly by what I wonder if it I wonder when there’s a hurricane or something the water reaches a hole on top here if you’re new feel free to comment in the comments or my YouTube channel you can see where people are stopping to take Taking the views
you could essentially stop anywhere here I’m going in water but you can see that it’s very Rocky foreign
for a long time but um just watching the Sun and in water and the Rocks just observation I could tell you know if you did try to come here you would have to do it carefully
don’t be playing around there’s lifeguards here so you know it’s not like you could just do whatever
but you could see how much Coastline it is
for you to explore
doesn’t that look great
so this is where I was talking about
and if you look you’ll notice there’s nobody in English
this is what I like about these far away areas now if this is Marcus this would have been packed but here we have to drive for a very long time you have the blessing and beauty of our whole Beach almost to yourself very few people are wrong
and I decided to park here and there was even a little area there on the right you could see some benches you on a table you could sit down there and eat watch the sea you could go out and get your feet wet however I don’t know about the swimming part downpour station in one of the videos I made right here the Toco Beach I called it this area might be part of big beer I’m not sure the way it’s shipped it seems like if Big B would have would have its own area and this would be a little part of it or not necessarily but I don’t think it’s part of San Souci as yet see this big b no enter in Big B
another area that you could um come and record and whatnot now I did want to stop here when I saw this Maxi stop and was Latino real people I said no I can’t record anything there maybe another day if you you should know from my videos that I do like to respect people’s privacy and their wishes and just as I wouldn’t want somebody coming on the camera and filming myself or my family or my children I do not do that to other people those of you who like recording children are you know I strongly suggest that you don’t do that talking about children um children can’t make their own decisions they are they are under the jurisdiction of their parents or whomever is charged over them and you know
and you know when you record children it’s for life they go up to adults seeing whatever I just have strong feelings on that I don’t know how you feel about it you can always comment in the comments area of my YouTube channel
so as we continue here we’re going towards San Souci Beach
I have a lot of these areas where you can buy stuff to eat or not
I am I can’t see whether or how the food is something that’s funny for me is when I see all these people making videos of doubles and I was like thinking wow you you know even yeah even North Americans coming on here to record doubles and I think there’s so much more to this country than doubles only food is the only thing we could talk about here I mean I have not run against the doubles I you know I’ve eaten bubbles before and whatnot but I I don’t know I just finished this blog food I guess people generally love to talk about food you’ll notice I don’t really do that much except for my own meals anyway so we are here at the San Souci Beach and this is the Tony right and I made a video for that again I didn’t come out here because we were trying to get the Matelot an idea was going by but this is another option you have when you’re coming to this area let’s see poster for it you can look for it again I’ll have the link in the description
so this remains as let’s say part one of this trip Valencia this is Sans Souci more or less proper the way I enter in here and uh does it be turning right you can see it up ahead and on the right of the vehicle which accounts in your screen they do see the thing there as in Swift board surfing and uh on the way back from Matelot when we did this video I saw a lot of that happening and if you appreciated this video I would really love if you can show some love become a PATRON you can give a monetary donation a GPS man cave
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