Thank you for blessing me with another vlog that is close to my heart. I have mentioned this before, I am always intrigued by the houses, 2 stories. 3 stories, unfinished and the ones that never changed. I have to admit some of those 2 and 3 story seem so cozy, I want to be in there while it rains non stop. I enjoyed the Chaguanas route, I travelled through their many times as a youngster visiting my aunt in Londenville. My parents had a friend that lived off Ragoonanan road who had a horse farm and took care of a few thoroughbred horses that raced at Santa Rosa, off course that road looked foreign to me as I remembered it. When you droved passed the old airport, it brought back a ton of memories. The old police station was near the airport and behind it, there was a Governer plum tree that my uncle and I used to go to get plum and sometimes when the police saw us, they would threaten to lock us up. Across the road, my father was a supervisor that help build the water treatment plant. So many times on evenings he would carry us to show us the dams that they grading and building in the back and we also got a VIP tour when it open showing is how it worked. Further up where the Caroni river passes through my uncle and hos friend use to through line and caught whabeen and catfish. I was luck to go a couple times in the early 80's. When you turned the corner after the old airport, that was home to me for a couple of years and many more, my grand mother housed is in that stretch. It is located right where Brea's Delight is, it was a mud/dirt house which is has been long gone. The next 2 houses where school mates of mine when I started school at age 6 attending St Helena Presbyterian and attended for 2 years before we moved to Chase Village. We lived there when dad started working at the Water treatment plan. I have walked that road so many times and by had it changed, it used to be 50% or more dirt homes, with no pavement just open and at times stagnated culverts. The church is still there as we all the snackette/grocery store ran by a chinese guy named Benny. The end of that stretch to the left is still and open field, we attended so many bazars and BBQ as well as christmas parties for the kids. I also remember where the Panam guest house was located, they had so many fetes, I was too small to attend, but the sound of the DJ was soo loud we could here it clear by my grandmother house. Thanks again for sharing this GEM of a video... loved every minute of it.
Thank you Dave for not only viewing but sharing a piece of your history on the channel - I really do appreciate it very much! I'm happy so much nostalgia flooded back on this drive! I have pinned your comment so viewers would get a glimpse of the way things were thru your eyes! You mentioned mud and dirt houses - that was really a long time ago! & the Panam Guest house - I remember that also! Thank you for sharing again and best wishes in all your endeavors! 😊💯👍
@@eyes-ears-easy thanks for pinning my comment and allowing me to share my story , yes indeed it was a very long time. It was the early 80s when those houses were around. I saw my mom "leapaying" using dirt and cow manure. It was definitely an experience as I look back now as an adult and just pretty normal as a kid when I visited my grandmothers house. One of the most frightening things I encountered when I attended school is when we were walking up to the bridge mind you it was an older version in the 80s and I just started walking up the hill and you can see how high the river was and it was gushing. I always walked on the right hand side, and I never looked at it because I was so scared. And there were times when the river was so low that my second year teacher would take us down close to the banks and we would have story time under the trees and ever so often you would see a caiman or 2 pop up for air. All in all it was a grand experience for me just living in that country for 15 years from birth. 🙏🙏🙏
@@Dave1854 Hello dave & thanks again for sharing how things were back in the 1980s! Yes I also remember dirt houses and "leapaying". Always quite scary when rivers overflow their banks! i want to believe teachers would not be venturing near the river these days! 🙏😊💯👍
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Thank you for blessing me with another vlog that is close to my heart. I have mentioned this before, I am always intrigued by the houses, 2 stories. 3 stories, unfinished and the ones that never changed. I have to admit some of those 2 and 3 story seem so cozy, I want to be in there while it rains non stop. I enjoyed the Chaguanas route, I travelled through their many times as a youngster visiting my aunt in Londenville. My parents had a friend that lived off Ragoonanan road who had a horse farm and took care of a few thoroughbred horses that raced at Santa Rosa, off course that road looked foreign to me as I remembered it. When you droved passed the old airport, it brought back a ton of memories. The old police station was near the airport and behind it, there was a Governer plum tree that my uncle and I used to go to get plum and sometimes when the police saw us, they would threaten to lock us up. Across the road, my father was a supervisor that help build the water treatment plant. So many times on evenings he would carry us to show us the dams that they grading and building in the back and we also got a VIP tour when it open showing is how it worked. Further up where the Caroni river passes through my uncle and hos friend use to through line and caught whabeen and catfish. I was luck to go a couple times in the early 80's. When you turned the corner after the old airport, that was home to me for a couple of years and many more, my grand mother housed is in that stretch. It is located right where Brea's Delight is, it was a mud/dirt house which is has been long gone. The next 2 houses where school mates of mine when I started school at age 6 attending St Helena Presbyterian and attended for 2 years before we moved to Chase Village. We lived there when dad started working at the Water treatment plan. I have walked that road so many times and by had it changed, it used to be 50% or more dirt homes, with no pavement just open and at times stagnated culverts. The church is still there as we all the snackette/grocery store ran by a chinese guy named Benny. The end of that stretch to the left is still and open field, we attended so many bazars and BBQ as well as christmas parties for the kids. I also remember where the Panam guest house was located, they had so many fetes, I was too small to attend, but the sound of the DJ was soo loud we could here it clear by my grandmother house. Thanks again for sharing this GEM of a video... loved every minute of it.
Thank you Dave for not only viewing but sharing a piece of your history on the channel - I really do appreciate it very much! I'm happy so much nostalgia flooded back on this drive! I have pinned your comment so viewers would get a glimpse of the way things were thru your eyes! You mentioned mud and dirt houses - that was really a long time ago! & the Panam Guest house - I remember that also! Thank you for sharing again and best wishes in all your endeavors! 😊💯👍
@@eyes-ears-easy thanks for pinning my comment and allowing me to share my story , yes indeed it was a very long time. It was the early 80s when those houses were around. I saw my mom "leapaying" using dirt and cow manure. It was definitely an experience as I look back now as an adult and just pretty normal as a kid when I visited my grandmothers house. One of the most frightening things I encountered when I attended school is when we were walking up to the bridge mind you it was an older version in the 80s and I just started walking up the hill and you can see how high the river was and it was gushing. I always walked on the right hand side, and I never looked at it because I was so scared. And there were times when the river was so low that my second year teacher would take us down close to the banks and we would have story time under the trees and ever so often you would see a caiman or 2 pop up for air. All in all it was a grand experience for me just living in that country for 15 years from birth. 🙏🙏🙏
@@Dave1854 Hello dave & thanks again for sharing how things were back in the 1980s! Yes I also remember dirt houses and "leapaying". Always quite scary when rivers overflow their banks! i want to believe teachers would not be venturing near the river these days! 🙏😊💯👍
Amazing video it makes me feel like I’m home again. Blessings to you 🇹🇹👍
I enjoyed the scenery of this video.
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I knew it was some part of south or central. Another lovely calming video 😊thank you
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