Posts under ‘Haiti’

Men ride inside and atop of a tap-tap down the road in Haiti. Photo: Adrienne C. Wilson
If God is love or if he ever knew love, it wouldn’t seem so for many of us based off the way he repeatedly torments Haiti. Trust though that there are people so devastated and bewildered by the recent [...]

I know. Haiti isn’t the first place to come to mind when pondering a tropical getaway which is why I decided to write about it for this particular Trazzler writing contest. (No, it isn’t the pity vote or the sympathy vote.) When I sat down to think of all the islands I’ve been to I [...]

Sunset in St Pete., FL. Photo: Adrienne C. Wilson
Since I’ve been back home and catching up with friends either on the phone or over dinner everyone has been probing and picking at my brain. What have you been up to? Where have you been? Why did you go there? For work? For play? 2007 has [...]

Press play and enjoy the ride. These are two short videos I created with my dinky Kodak camera while cruising through the streets of Port-au-Prince on a rainy day. There is something about seeing the people of Haiti in motion and the colorful tap-taps once more that makes me smile. It may not be tomorrow [...]

Looking down from the restaurant onto the night-time Jacmel, Haiti streets just before heading to the Mizik Festival. For dinner I had the Cabrit creole (Creole Goat) and a large Papaille au lait (Papaya with milk). Délicieux! Photo: Adrienne C. Wilson

Tap-Tap road block in Port-au-Prince. Photo: Adrienne C. Wilson

One of the many motorbikes zips by [...]