Baby got a pair of new shoes

This was the first night with my new camera in the hotel room. I took a picture of my new shoes I forgot to post:) I actually brought back about 5 pairs of new shoes and sneeks. My souls were getting a bit light as my cousin use to tell me:) Neat shoes! I brought home blue, black and brown shoes along with a few sneakers. I can walk again:)

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Hasta Pronto!

Hello Margarita

After dinner one evening Maria and I went to see a friend of ours who she use to work with at Lous Shark Bar who now works at the Four Roses near the Europa Hotel. If you have a camera you can get Dominican Gals to do just about anything in front of it:) No kidding you won't believe what I have been able to photograph:) Here they are together holding hands which isn't unusual at all for Dominicanas. Heck they are more grabby of each other than I am! Man I told you so!:) This is one I took by extending my hand and pushing the button! Man I take a horrible picture!

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Hasta Pronto!

My pretty again sister

Thank Gawd she got rid of the big hair. I have been begging her to get rid of the fake hair that was woven in. She looked horrible. Now she is back to her real hair and beautiful again! It is hard for me to look at a beautiful woman who makes herself look bad ON PURPOSE. I had her sisters and brother making fun of how she looked. She was at my house yesterday and said "Manana en la Manana yo finito con me pelo". THANKS SO MUCH now I can look at you again!

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If you don't believe me scrool down to her picture wearing a pink top. Way more beautiful now, gracia dios.

Hasta pronto!

Off Road Motorcycle Ride North Coast of Dominican Republic

This was Sunday afternoons Bike ride into the mountains. We had a late start and only left with 3 of us. a couple of hours later this is what we looked like. We went though Sosua Abajo and took back roads to Montellano and then ended up on the Touristica to Santiago.

About half way to Santiago we hung a right and took a dirt trail to about the top of the Mountain. We ended up with a nice crew of people.

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Two retards came with gals. I couldn't believe these guys. Leave the women home on days like this although these gals were game for the worst riding I could imagine. One of these guys took a spill but no real damage that a couple of dollars of replacement parts couldnt fix.

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One other guy took a spill on loose rock going downhill. This is the hardest part of off roading because it is difficult to stop when going down hill on loose stone. Also when you fall it really hurts when you get older or maybe I just don't remember pain when I was younger:) This morning when I saw him he was complaining about pain, no surprise really!

I make sure to go real slow going down hill and stay the hell away from everyone else. A few years ago I had someone stop and when I tried to avoid them I locked up the front wheel and dropped the bike. I was only going 4-6 mph but man it hurt for several days! When we travel I am usually the last one coming down and happy about it. I aint gonna let someone else cause me problems. I am planning on causing all of my own all by myself:) This was a very picturesque shot that I had to take. Man you can see forever. This was earlier in the day when I got a call from the rest of the crew who didn't make the start. We met somewhere and had a beer or two and carried on.

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At the end myself and one other guy Will decided to do some more exploring and ended up in a real nice mountain town called Pedro Garcia. It was way high up and it kind of reminded me of Jarabacoa but smaller and cleaner. Roads were very steep and made of concrete. We decided that the mayor of this town should be the president of the country. Neat place.

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We are going back this Sunday. We were on top of a mountain which must have been 50o0 ft high and we stopped to pee. Storm clouds came rolling in and Will wanted to turn back because he didn't have great tires. Reluctantly I said ok but I really wanted to see where it would take us. I am pretty sure we would have gone over the mountain and down the other side and hit other towns way back in the campo! Just getting to where we were was a chore. We even had a bull who was thinking about giving us some trouble and we had to sneak the guy both ways.

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I want to go where no white man has ever gone before!! LOL

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Rain or shine this is where we are going to go. Hope the weather clears up by then. We are supposed to get rain for a few more days and man has it been raining. My finca surely needed it and now stuff is growing like crazy!

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Back to Pedro Garcia next week and we will see what we find. I am going to gas up in Montellano because I was really worried about getting out of the mountains without running out of gas. It was a long day and I had fumes when I filled up after.

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Hasta Pronto!

PS>anyone who wants to join us is welcome to! More the merrier. Rent a bike and get your butt along. Please know how to ride though before you consider it. Experienced riders have gotten hurt so be carefull.

Cutest little girl in the Dominican Republic

This is Disnalda who I have had the honor of sponsoring in both private English school and seperate English classes. She was about 7 years old when Dawn and I first decided to invest in her. She is now a young woman and just about the sweetest kid I have ever met. Her mom has been my house cleaner for about a year now so when Disnalda doesn't have school she comes along with her mom. For me this is such a treat to have her here. The other day she comes into the bedroom where I am laying in bed reading a book and first gives me a kiss hello and then tells me she would like to go swimming. Of course I said, change your clothes and we will go to the pool. We spent a few hours at the pool, her in it and me reading my book and then we went back in the house. She was having fun with her mom and when it was time to go she said she wants to stay:) What a sweetheart, she could have stayed forever as far as I was concerned.

Hasta Pronto!