Hotel Brisas Los Galeones
Travel Blogs from Guama
First Weekend
... the night drinking and hanging out with my new friends, I was in bed by 8 with a fever and worst stomach pain I have ever experienced. My fever broke in the middle of the night and I woke up feeling much better. We spent Sunday enjoying more of the beach and taking it easy. I was very sad when we got back to ISA, but my night got much more interesting and good when a group of us decided to go to McDonald’s. Our trip started off with a way too expensive car ride, where our cab ...
Inland
... my e-mails.
Since we were not allowed to "climb" the mountain on our own we decided to buy a package for the project, we even had the luck to find two others that wanted to go for the "Pico Express" at the same date (so instead of paying 385 dollars per person it was now 285 dollars per person). So we had dinner with the other two team members. It was a nice British couple. I think we have a good ...
Wrapping Up the DR Swing
So we decided to visit the DR as a detour to our US based travel plan, and for good reason. We wanted to catch up with our dear friends - the Trautweins and also let the kids see a world unlike any they would see as we visited historic sites on the East coast, natural parks in the Southwest and a mix of attractions up the West coast.We buffered the trip with some nice beach time on both sides. Our stop in Santo Domingo has already been well covered in ...
Adventure Tour - Week 1
Wow. I've done so much since last time I updated this blog. I spent another week volunteering at Crossroads. We pretty much did the same stuff as the first week, plus we went to a public hospital in Puerto Plata to see the conditions that the patients are accustomed to. Most people with ANY money in the DR go to private hospitals because the public ones are so bad. Each "ward" housed about 20 people in the same room. Each patient had ...
Airport Shenanigans and Santo Domingo
... in search of food for an hour before settling on a place with empanadas and pizza, and later got some frozen yogurt. They stopped off at a grocery store before heading back to the hotel to get water and snacks, and went home at 8:30. Steve fell asleep laying across his bed horizontally, while George and Brian, having found a Seattle Mariners/New York Yankees game on ESPN Deportes, stayed up as long as their eyes allowed, but fell asleep before 10 PM with the TV still ...