Ok this may take a few reports to keep many from falling asleep. Spent 11 days over thanksgiving with my GF in the DR( she lives there). One big plan was a trip to Higuey for her. She wanted to see the big church. I asked around before I went about possible other things to do or see to break up the drive, and I want to thanks those that replied. The trip was planned as :
Depart Moca sat am, after a first night spent dancing in Santiago Friday night( I arrived early Friday ) well we went through four vehicles all the way to sat night before we got one that MOST things worked on ESPECIALLY the stereo-cd player? they had the stereo apart at 9 pm in downtown Santiago Saturday night trying to fix the cd player for me!! We found a nail salon luckily that was open till 10, ish believe it or not!?any way back to Friday?we didn?t go out because bandits had taken over the LiCey road as well as the Tamboril road ,so her father didn?t want us to try to get into Santiago that night. So we pushed the trip back one day thus the radio repair in Santiago sat night before we went dancing. Ok Sunday am we leave on our trip, first stop, is Santo Domingo, to see the National Aquarium, and spend the night, hopefully dancing some more. The Aquarium was ok I guess, at least from my view. Lots of little species, they seemed to cover most things. I am getting the idea they don?t feed the fish enough, when I saw one of those huge fish that look like Blackfish, (ugly face) take a crap, and in an instant he turned around and ate it before the crowd converged on its location! Ha ha ha ha?.I mean that was a slow big fish and he did a U turn pretty dammm fast!!!!
Its me, my gf and her mother. We stayed at the Hotel Holdelfia or something like that , about a block from the end of the Conde monument. Nice place only drawback?was you had to pay extra for all the stuff in the fridge, and the bathroom shower stall was small?.my GF mother ate the fridge dry! Cost me 1800 pesos! Ha ha ha?..she had her own room. Went to JETSET disco but they were closed. Cabby took us to another, that was nice?danced about 2.5 hours. Not too crowded?Had no trouble getting to SD or the hotel but had all kinds of problems getting out of SD to get on rte 3 towards La Romana. They just refuse to but signs up when roads split.. there are so many big roads in SD that split into up to four different routes and they don?t say which is which?so sign for the cities ahead or even the original route number! Ask?go ahead and cross your fingers. The cops don?t even know how to get around the city?four gas station attendants tried to help, but throw in the roads splitting with out a hint of which one to take, and all bets are off?.ok enough for now?..Higuey, Nightmare in San Pedro De Macoris, awful hotel between SP de macoris and Bocha chica?trucks without lights!!! another lost path in SD, a thanksgiving day party in Sosua( why did I think it was in Puerto Platta??), and dogs sleeping in the road! maybe more to come?.bob
Depart Moca sat am, after a first night spent dancing in Santiago Friday night( I arrived early Friday ) well we went through four vehicles all the way to sat night before we got one that MOST things worked on ESPECIALLY the stereo-cd player? they had the stereo apart at 9 pm in downtown Santiago Saturday night trying to fix the cd player for me!! We found a nail salon luckily that was open till 10, ish believe it or not!?any way back to Friday?we didn?t go out because bandits had taken over the LiCey road as well as the Tamboril road ,so her father didn?t want us to try to get into Santiago that night. So we pushed the trip back one day thus the radio repair in Santiago sat night before we went dancing. Ok Sunday am we leave on our trip, first stop, is Santo Domingo, to see the National Aquarium, and spend the night, hopefully dancing some more. The Aquarium was ok I guess, at least from my view. Lots of little species, they seemed to cover most things. I am getting the idea they don?t feed the fish enough, when I saw one of those huge fish that look like Blackfish, (ugly face) take a crap, and in an instant he turned around and ate it before the crowd converged on its location! Ha ha ha ha?.I mean that was a slow big fish and he did a U turn pretty dammm fast!!!!
Its me, my gf and her mother. We stayed at the Hotel Holdelfia or something like that , about a block from the end of the Conde monument. Nice place only drawback?was you had to pay extra for all the stuff in the fridge, and the bathroom shower stall was small?.my GF mother ate the fridge dry! Cost me 1800 pesos! Ha ha ha?..she had her own room. Went to JETSET disco but they were closed. Cabby took us to another, that was nice?danced about 2.5 hours. Not too crowded?Had no trouble getting to SD or the hotel but had all kinds of problems getting out of SD to get on rte 3 towards La Romana. They just refuse to but signs up when roads split.. there are so many big roads in SD that split into up to four different routes and they don?t say which is which?so sign for the cities ahead or even the original route number! Ask?go ahead and cross your fingers. The cops don?t even know how to get around the city?four gas station attendants tried to help, but throw in the roads splitting with out a hint of which one to take, and all bets are off?.ok enough for now?..Higuey, Nightmare in San Pedro De Macoris, awful hotel between SP de macoris and Bocha chica?trucks without lights!!! another lost path in SD, a thanksgiving day party in Sosua( why did I think it was in Puerto Platta??), and dogs sleeping in the road! maybe more to come?.bob