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Chapter One - Santo Domingo - Day 1
... my map at all, and when we enquire, no one seems to know it either. I look at the map again, and this time try Oswaldo Beaz Street.
“Si! Si! Adelante!” we are told.
Of course, it’s a one-way street, and we are at the wrong end, so around the block again and finally we park at the front door. Would a GPS have helped? Probably not.
It’s not as glamorous as it looks on the web ...
All at once
... an office, the car had a flat tire and apparently a broken door knob. Well for 30 bucks a day that’s what you get. We waited a while for the owner to get the car in working order, changed the door handle etc..Needless to say there was no insurance paperwork and everything was rather unofficial.
After about an hour we were on our way. We were headed to river that was popular with the locals. Only about 15 minutes out of town we arrived at a really ...
An entry for the sake of an entry
Obviously it's been awhile since I last wrote a blog... And I can't remember anything particularly exciting that has happened in my life since then! I think this means I'm "aplataneandeme," a word I thought I had blogged about before- basically it just means that I have acculturated myself to Dominican life. The only thing that has changed (and this is a large reason I haven't been able to blog) is the amount ...
Work can begin!
... said the pump could be fixed anytime, but sometimes it took 3 months. Now my time is spent with everyone taking trips to the river or walking 5 minutes to milk cows. There's no reason for me to learn how to milk cows, but it gives me some chill time.
*News: water was fixed yesterday
HOME: I'm almost living in my own house! I was told by the owners of the hosue I want they would put the floor in January; there's still ...
Up a Mountain
... to live how I live, hang out, and travel. This bus ride, however, was miserable. Because Alex prefered me picking him up at the airport and not taking a taxi himself to meet me, we missed the bus I usually take. One that is much more comfortable, reliable, and has a bathroom on-board. We took a regular, express bus to my site from the capitol that was fine (had AC but smaller seats) until we came to a dead halt. Stopped in the middle of ...
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