Dominican Republic
Hi, Final campaign calls made, one more contribution mailed, and an early absentee ballot cast in the 2008 election, I decamped for our place in Las Galeras a couple of weeks ago. The episode recounted below is not a proud moment for me. I share it in the same hope with which I offered the […]
Hi, My phone-banking on behalf of Obama is over, final contributions made, my ballot is cast and I’m writing to you from the porch overlooking the bay and the Atlantic in Las Galeras, Republica Dominicana. It was dry here for several months after we left last Spring and then rained like hell for several more […]
Hi, Denise and I are looking over the list of things to do before closing up here in Las Galeras and returning to the US in a couple of weeks. It’s a long list. Not surprisingly, we’ve a few things to do that are completely foreign to the counterpart list that we use when we […]
Hi, As reasonably attuned city folk we’re accustomed to the animals, and the animal sounds, that one might find in an urban setting. In a place like Takoma Park those sounds run the gamut from barking dogs and yowling cats through chattering squirrels all the way to the shrill and insistent squawk of a pileated […]
It turns out that there are 26 species of snake to be found on the island of Hispaniola. My previous research had confirmed that none of the 26 are poisonous, and the few snakes we’d actually encountered appeared to be friendly in a slim and green non-threatening tropical sort of way. So that’s what I […]