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Hello everyone! I have a question regarding photo preservation. My mother brought all of the old family photos to her new house in Santiago. She is complaining that the year-round heat is destroying them. I?ll be heading to Santiago next week and I would like to surprise her with some...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/nyregion/27joint.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=dominican%20republic%20&st=cse In this New York Times article, the author Alan Feuer calls the Dominican cigars "second-fiddle Dominicans". The following is a letter sent to him by me: Dear Mr. Feuer: As a proud...

I have a friend who have just applied for a job in Santo Domingo. Although she has previously lived there before as a volunteer nurse, they have told her that she can't get the job, because she's not a Dominican residence. What's needed for a U.S. born citizen to become a Dominican residence...

Although this time around I landed in Puerto Plata and stayed at a hotel, not far from the beach, I indeed returned to the city of Santiago, leaving my ?tourist? life behind me. The city of Santiago seemed as busy as usual. The only thing that had changed was my perspective on everything! I...

A few weeks ago, I boarded a jetBlue flight scheduled to land in the Cibao International Airport in Santiago, Dominican Republic at around 4:00 in the afternoon. It wasn?t long before an excited Dominican gentleman shouted, ?Preparen las manos... ?S?benlas!? when right at that instant, the...

Hello, everyone! I'm a new member and this is my first post, so please bare with me :) First of all, here's a short life story: I was born in Tamboril, Santiago, and since the age of twelve, I've been living in NYC. I am thirty-two-years-old now, and this is my second time traveling back to...