Most gracious open house in Puerto Plata hosted by my golf partner Bush Baby and "She Who Must Be Obeyed" . Tons of people there some I had met and others that it was a real pleasure to meet. Even some charming children!.
I truly appreciated the atmosphere of good cheer and the really interesting conversation. Hopefully, I also got a golf game out of the whole thing and actually heard of a new, quite original, proposal for a tourist project. I can only hope it gets going because it will draw in a new class of tourists that the area can really use.
As things would have it I took the Luper?n Tourist Highway which was the subject of several front page photographs. Yes the houses are slipping into the valley. Yes there are houses perched on the edge of total destruction. And, oh my God, yes, there is going to be a total washout/landslide someday soon. Now that "soon" could be tempered as a geological "soon" but I do not think so.
As I posted on another thread, one section of the roadway has dropped nearly 1/2 a meter and slipped sideways well over a meter!!
And another section has dropped close to 1/2 meter also...Big trouble if we have a wet month...
Again, thank you for the hospitality, and again a sincere Happy New Year to all that were there.
HB
I truly appreciated the atmosphere of good cheer and the really interesting conversation. Hopefully, I also got a golf game out of the whole thing and actually heard of a new, quite original, proposal for a tourist project. I can only hope it gets going because it will draw in a new class of tourists that the area can really use.
As things would have it I took the Luper?n Tourist Highway which was the subject of several front page photographs. Yes the houses are slipping into the valley. Yes there are houses perched on the edge of total destruction. And, oh my God, yes, there is going to be a total washout/landslide someday soon. Now that "soon" could be tempered as a geological "soon" but I do not think so.
As I posted on another thread, one section of the roadway has dropped nearly 1/2 a meter and slipped sideways well over a meter!!
And another section has dropped close to 1/2 meter also...Big trouble if we have a wet month...
Again, thank you for the hospitality, and again a sincere Happy New Year to all that were there.
HB