(Editor's note: This is Part One of a series on a Bob Marley Tour)
"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever." - Bob Marley
OCHO RIOS, JAMAICA - Bob Marley died at age 36 from skin cancer. His family, however, believes the reggae superstar was actually poisoned.
Bob Marley’s father, Captain Norval Marley, was a white sea captain from Liverpool, England, sent to Jamaica to oversee plantations. His mother, Cedella Booker, was a Jamaican.
Some say he never knew his father. Others say the Englishman who died when his son was 10 played an important part in the future musician’s early life.
Myths often surround a man who becomes a “Legend.”
And it can be hard to find the truth in all the lore. Such is the case with Bob Marley.
“You hear so many things about Bob Marley and many of them aren’t true,” says guide Gary Dalling. “On this tour we are going to try to set the facts straight.”
“That,” Gary says, pointing to a large photo shellacked inside our van of a stern-faced man wearing a dress shirt and tie, “is Bob Marley’s father. That is the truth.”
When the Carnival Breeze docked in Ocho Rios in Jamaica, we had a ton of tours we could take. One of the most popular was a visit to Dunn’s River Falls where visitors can climb the 600-foot waterfall. I did that years ago and might have done it again had I not noticed a blurb under the shore excursion’s Cultural Tours called the Bob Marley Bus Adventure. Lasting almost six hours, the tour cost $89.99 per person.
It turned out to be quite a trip.
Read the whole series here:
Read the whole series here:
Part one
http://www.examiner.com/article/bob-marley-tour-is-a-fascinating-trip-ja...
Part two
http://www.examiner.com/article/bob-marley-tour-is-a-fascinating-trip-ja...
Part three
http://www.examiner.com/article/bob-marley-tour-is-a-fascinating-trip-ja...
Part four
http://www.examiner.com/article/bob-marley-tour-is-a-fascinating-trip-ja...
Part five
http://www.examiner.com/article/bob-marley-tour-is-a-fascinating-trip-ja...
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