The Hurricane Matthew is leaving. We have been watching the storm carefully. The school is closed today and tomorrow due to the predicted heavy rain from Matthew. As soon as Matthew leaves we are planning to go to Pico Duarte. We are riding to the mountains by motorbike and it is two days hiking up … More La Tormenta “Matthew”

On the way to Agua Verde up in the mountains, half the motobikers took the old road and enjoyed the beautiful country road. Wendy in white shirt, motobiked by herself as a beginner motorbiker. I was quite proud of her independence. Peter and I were very careful all the time on the motorbike.  The beautiful … More Motorbike to Agua verde

We are going to Cabarete, which is two and half hours away from Luperon Habour. We, all the motobikers, are waiting for lunch to be served on the way to the final destination. We all think ourselves “cool”, since we motorbiking for such a long distance. Peter is practicing Kite-surfing at the beach. It is … More Cabarete!

This is the children in the school with Peter and Spanish teacher, Santiago. Since he is an English teacher, he speaks English with some students in front of us. The school classes are full and we visited the principal’s office to say hello to his wife. We, eight motorbikes, went to Castillo( Columbus beach) all … More Pig Barbeque

Every morning for breakfast we sit on the Balcony, we enjoy seeing the banana trees. We enjoy to count the bananas and see the new banana leaves come out. A new banana leaf is one whole leave rolled into a long tube and unrolls quickly. By wind, it breaks into several pieces. Also in the … More Pico Duarte

We both made a trip to our home for two weeks. Peter went to England and I went to Washington D.C. where my son, Adam lives now with his Fiancé Jenny. I stayed at my sisters house in Mclean, Virginia. Peter stayed four days at his son’s house in Faringdon near Oxford, England and eight … More Home!

We drived to the mountain and went to the stream, called Agua Verde( Green Water). In a small gorge a Pub blocked the river to create a swimming area. Drinks and food by the river just like an English canal pub😂 There is a seat manually pulled accros the gorge. Mike, right side, is dating … More Adam gets engaged

We made a lot of progress in Spanish so we could hold a conversation with a Dominican in Spanish. We are taking the class one hour every day and we study hard outside. It is really fun to study Spanish when we could practice right away with the people. And learning a language helps somehow … More Painting Show DR

We are visiting the capital city of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo. The nice part of the city and not such a good part of the city are mixed together strangely enough. This is the first Cathedral in America and Columbus was buried in this Cathedral for 200 years and was moved to Seville, Spain … More Santo Domingo, DR

We really enjoy to learn Spanish together. The Spanish Teacher is 79 years old Dominican. He teaches English to the high school student normally. He gets confused with Spanish and English all the time because of old age. So when he writes down the words, he often writes in English instead of Spanish. And he … More Luperon Spanish Lessons