Day 5 And Day 6
Day 5 And Day 6
Day 5 was awesome. The front desk arranged to have a quad delivered to the Colibri.
30 minutes from time of order we had our quad. In typical DR fashion we had to drive the delivery guy back to the office in LT and do "paperwork".
All this was fine. The one thing I had a big issue with was that they insisted that I leave my passport in their rinky dink office until the quad was returned.
I was very uneasy with this but did it.
Heck, the worst thing that can happen is that I am not allowed back into Canada :glasses:
We paid $50 US and we were off to explore. We asked several times how much gas was in the quad and the response was, "you are good for the day, no worries".
We spent the next 2 hours touring to the east. We stayed along the ocean to keep our bearings as we did not have any maps etc.
Sometime early into hour two the quad died! Oh no!!!
I opened the gas tank and it was bone dry. I guess the dumb tourists got hosed on this one.
Luckily there was a guy not too far down the road selling gas in beer bottles.
I had never seen this before but I was
happy to see him.
I bought a grande bottle of Brahma that was actually filled with gas.
This was 50 RD.
We dumped and it and magic. We are touring again :glasses:
Not long after we got going I stopped at a house that had plastic jugs of gas outside and filled the quad with another 400 RD of gas at this make shift gas station.
We toured the entire day. About 5 PM we went to a secluded part of Playa Las Belleenas down buy the sailing club. I managed a siesta there after our stressfull
day of touring along the beautiful coastline.
We took the quad into LT last night and had dinner at the play pizzeria.
Dinner was great.
A chicken schnitizel , mushroom chicken , appetizer and a few drinks was another 50 US.
All in all a
fantastic day.
Today we did almost nothing and it was great.
We took the quad into town and picked up a few groceries around 9 AM.
We are starting to drive like Dominicans now :squareeye
At 10 AM I had the hotel call the quad company to pick up their machine and return my passport.
Boy was I releived to see that come back!!
From there we hit the beach for a full day of sun etc.
Awesome vacation thus far and I must say the staff at Colibri are great.
They are the best of any hotel in the carribean that we have been too.
Granted it is a small resort, thus a little more intimate.
For anyone looking for a low key vacation this is the place to be IMO.
I had loosely budgeted contributing about $100 US per day to the DR economy (and my waist line :ermm
per day + lodging and so far we are in the ballpark though I don't track it that closely.
