Recent Trip: Where We Will Live

David Sella

My first thought about Port Salut is ‘I like the road.’ Port Salut feels like a different country compared to the remote villages of Rossier and Fond des Blancs. We stopped for lunch on the beach- lobster, fish, french fries, and coke. There were many Haitians eating, picnicking. This is the first time that I have seen Haitians recreating in a formal recreation area and the first time that I have ever seen Haitians eating in public. There normally is so little food to go around that eating is not the same recreational sport, doesn’t have the same festive tone that eating does for us in the US. The beach is clean and sandy. The ocean is full of varying brightness of blues. Hatians having a good time. The man next to me is wearing a Carnaval mask dancing with another young man- women, men, children sitting in the back of the truck, chattering, jeering, encouraging.
David Sella