Archive for the Tag 'vacation'

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Multiculturalism.

Las Galeras is a noisy place: music, children laughing, birds singing, chickens clucking, pigs grunting, dogs barking, cats wailing… and these days construction sounds as a new aqueduct gets constructed nearby.  I’ve found it a nice background track to a lazy existence as we go from the beach to a hammock and back again. We’re [...]

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It feels good to be warm

24 hours after leaving home, we’re in a beautiful bed and breakfast in Las Galeras, Dominican Republic.  The five hour ride out from the airport was beautiful: lush hillsides, endless rice fields, friendly folks.  My Spanish is incredibly rusty but we’re getting by.  Tomorrow we sit our butts on the beach hoping that I will [...]