Today is the Día de la Restauración, when the Dominican Republic gained their freedom from annexation by Spain, and it is a national holiday. Many Dominicans leave the city and we have it all to ourselves. When there is not much traffic I like to take a longer walk with the dogs. So here is […]
Today at Playita Montecino there was a party going on. They even asked Teli, The Dominican Dog, to guard to make sure no one came to bother them. Soccor Boy, Big Blue Fish and Smiling Green Dinosaur had a big pink ice cream cone that they were all partaking of. They were having a swell […]
I so love waking early in the morning and taking Teli for her morning walk. It is still dark outside and the streets are empty of humans for the most part. Its just Teli, her friends and me enjoying the start of the new day. I also love seeing the morning sky and the sun […]
I see so much strange stuff going on here that I want to write about. Then I decide not to write. I worry that maybe I might write about something someone does and then they might see it and think that I am making fun or them when I am only making an observation. There […]
I decided to take the dogs to the beach today. We headed down the hill to Playita Montecino. They fixed the bridge crossing the Malecon which is great because I just cannot cross that road when it has traffic. The cars go too fast and they frighten me. I keep thinking what happens if I […]
Beach Junk Stories are stories from my imagination writing about garbage and junk laying around. Sometimes on the beach, the one I visit almost every morning with my dog Teli and her friends, there are large amounts of garbage that wash down from the Rio Ozama. Other times there is just a little bit of […]
