
Liz Lopez
What I miss about America
· Reasonably priced food
· Having our own transportation
· The speed of life (ie, school supplies took over a week to receive)
· Technology working consistently; it’s not just our sim cards, the locals don’t always get consistent service either
· GPS! No one here uses GPS! Deliveries to our house, they called for directions (food delivery, mask delivery, mail delivery)
· 24 hour stores.. or stores that are open on Sundays, or after 6 pm, or 7 pm, or 9 pm (that’s as late as it gets here)
· Crawling into my bed and not having sand in it
· Wiping my feet off every time I crawl into bed to keep the sand at a minimum
· Eating popcorn that didn’t become stale in five minutes due to the humidity
· Streaming
-Nothing works here without some special VPN
-Thank You Netflix for not being like Hulu, Amazon Prime, CBS, or HBO and letting me watch my shows
-Thank You YouTube, my kids are now obsessed with your endless stream because you don’t care where we’re located
· DIET SODA SOLD IN BULK (bulk = more than 20 oz. bottle)
· My home office / Lopez misses his mancave basement
· Caring about the Packers; we watched a few games but mostly forget about them unless my mom texts me a remind (thank you mom!); but no one here cares about American football
· The fact that all the bugs at home are dead. They’re never dead here, except after we bug bomb the house.
-Not many bees
-So many flies
-So many mosquitos
-That deadly dinosaur centipede that tried to destroy my family
(Fortunately, there are tons of products to combat these)
· Being able to understand most everyone’s accent (not always the case here)
· Amazon and it’s immediate gratification
· The customer always being right
· Mail delivery times; everything will take weeks, no matter what
· Well maintained roads
· Going to a restaurant and knowing that what’s on the menu, is in stock
· Yummy, cold, filtered water right from my fridge
· Last but most of all, our family and friends
Tomorrow, the antithesis, What I love about Barbados
