Last week I men­tioned how I opened a Skyview To­ba­go map, closed my eyes, point­ed my fin­ger on a spot at ran­dom and land­ed on Nut­meg Grove. Hav­ing nev­er heard of this place and cu­ri­ous to know more, I had head­ed out that day in search of it.The map was straight­for­ward, but in the ab­sence of names of small­er streets, all I knew is that I should turn off North­side Road some­where near Mo­ri­ah. I reached that area just af­ter 10 am. The road was de­void of peo­ple: there was no one from whom I could get di­rec­tions.

In­tu­itive­ly, at one point I turned right and drove down a small in­cline. A man was walk­ing along the road, scowl­ing from the heat. I stopped and asked if he knew Nut­meg Grove."Where they sen­nin' yuh?" he asked me. I showed him the map, which seemed to con­fuse him. His sug­ges­tion of ask­ing at the au­to garage fur­ther up the road brought no an­swers.

My next stop was at a place called Sun­ris­ing Mi­ni Mart, to buy wa­ter and snacks. The cashier and an­oth­er woman pe­rused the map and shook their heads, sug­gest­ing that maybe they knew the area, but by an­oth­er name."I hope you get through and come back and tell me de­tails," the cashier said as I left.