Kokomo Quest

I love The Beach Boys and I love to travel so this feels inevitable. This year I will attempt to complete the full Kokomo.*

As far as obnoxious travel plans go, this is pretty up there. It can mostly be explained by the fact that the “Cocktail” soundtrack was one of the few tapes** my family owned while living in Indonesia. If there were locations listed in “Don’t worry, be happy,” I would go there, too. 


Currently:

Aruba (2014), Jamaica (2014), oh I want to take ya
Bermuda (2013), Bahama (2001), come on pretty mama
Key Largo (today), 

Montego (2014), baby why don't we go, Jamaica
Off the Florida Keys (2019),

 there's a place called Kokomo (there isn’t really, it was a bar. But there is a city in Indiana)***
That's where you want to go to get away from it all

Bodies in the sand, tropical drink melting in your hand
We'll be falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band****
Down in Kokomo

Aruba, Jamaica, oh I want to take you to
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go
oh I want to take you down to Kokomo,

We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow*****
That's where we want to go, way down in Kokomo

Martinique(2017), that Montserrat (pending thanksgiving 2019) mystique

We'll put out to sea and we'll perfect our chemistry******
And by and by we'll defy a little bit of gravity
Afternoon delight, cocktails and moonlit nights
That dreamy look in your eye, give me a tropical contact high
Way down in Kokomo

Aruba, Jamaica, oh I want to take you to
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go
oh I want to take you down to Kokomo, 

We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow
That's where we want to go, way down in Kokomo

Port au Prince(2017), I want to catch a glimpse

Everybody knows a little place like Kokomo

 

Now if you want to go and get away from it all
Go down to Kokomo

Aruba, Jamaica, oh I want to take you to
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go
oh I want to take you down to Kokomo, 

We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow
That's where we want to go, way down in Kokomo

Stay tuned for November 2019 when I attempt to stick the landing! -KT

*I will only explain this once because I like to pretend it’s an actual thing. I’m going to all the places listed in the song “Kokomo.”
**Yeah. I said “tape.”
***Robert and Andrew know to expect me.
****Easily the sexiest of all bands.
*****Island time.
******If past experience has taught me anything, I think going out to sea would be more of a chemistry test. See also: bicycles.