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
We rented a room with Airconditioning as a painting studio. Luperon got full time electricity only six months ago, before that it was 8 hours per day. There are not many places with airconditioning. Yet I can not paint without airconditioning so we rented a room in a hotel for two months. The weather is … More Painting in Luperon
We are anchored at Luperon harbour, Dominican Republic. Dominican people are very friendly and contented people. Everything cost one third of the price compared to America. We can eat nice balanced meals for two or three dollars. We walked up the mountain and come down through 12 Waterfalls. It was quite a frightening experience to … More Luperon
To get from Provo to Luperon in the Dominican Republic we plan to sail accros the Caicos Bank, Anchor in Ambergris Cay, then sail overnight to the DR. There are four other boats also going to the DR. They anchored in Cockburn Harbor since Ambergris Cay is too shallow for them. Eight hours got us … More To Luperon, DR
No photos in this blog, they are on someone else’s camera😢 We are on a long passage from Long Island in the Bahamas to the Turks and Caicos. This is the second night of sailing through the night. The sea is more rough tonight and the lightening not to far away is frequent, like every … More Turks and Caicos islands
We are sailing down south. We snorkeled at Conception Cay. It is a beautiful uninhibited Island. And the coral bed is stretched out endlessly toward the East. On the way to Rum Cay, Peter caught this fish. We divided it into 5 pieces and froze them. Today we are sailing to Clarence Town on Long … More Clarence Town
We met Sea Squirrel (Fiona and Chris) and Solace (Andrew) Who want to go South from George Town. Since the season (winter) is over, almost every boat goes north and back home from George Town or south down the Caribbean. The five of us together rented a car and drove around the Great Exuma Cay. … More 23 26 22, Leaving George Town
Lee and Peter Sailing Trip was for Four not Two Years. Now an Italian adventure 