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The Sun is Always Shining Above the Clouds

I’m sitting here thinking on a day that many would describe as being miserable. We’ve had nothing but hard steady rain for two days now. However from my perspective it’s a beautiful day and even though we’re stuck inside, I’ll attempt to explain why. There’s an old saying “the sun is always shining above the […]

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Cabrera Expats Check Out The Big Box Stores In Santiago

After leaving the La Sirena supermarket, we head a little farther into Santiago to check out the largest big box store in Santiago. Price Smart is very, very similar to a Costco or a Sams warehouse store in America. As you would expect, products of every imaginable kind are stacked high on the shelves from […]

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Cabrera Expats Head To Santiago For A Day Of Shopping

Continuing on our day trip down to Santiago for shopping, we stop over at one of my favorite little roadside restaurants filled with mountain bikers and catch a glimpse at a couple of the locals in costume promoting the upcoming Carnival in the town of La Vega.  We get to check out the downhill portion […]

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Where Do Cabrera Expats Shop – Santiago Shopping Trip

If you have followed the DR Escapes blog for any time at all I am sure you will recall that I call this little tropical village “Mayberry with Internet”, sort of like stepping back in time to a simpler lifestyle.  But I can hear some of you asking…. “But Barry, will we be stepping back into […]

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Mugged In Cabrera….. NOT

Imagine how concerned I was when I received an email from my video guy when he was down shooting some film recently.  The subject line of his email was “Mugged in Cabrera” and it contained a collage of pictures showing black eyes, egg-sized goose eggs and bleeding slices on both arms.  Needless to say I […]

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Sustainable Organic Farm Wrap-up

We hope you enjoyed our little Sunday tour of one of the local sustainable organic farms in the hills overlooking Cabrera and the coast. I hope now you understand just a little better why I am so convinced that any expats that choose to live here should never go hungry or lack for a source […]

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Sustainable Organic Farming In Cabrera – Out In The Fields – Part 2

There is more fresh organic fruits and vegetables growing out in the fields of little local family farms than we could ever eat around Cabrera.  It is so plentiful that if you get to know your neighbors then you are likely to come home from your visits with your harms loaded.  This is the second […]

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Sustainable Organic Farming In Cabrera – Let’s Visit A Family Farm

Fresh organic foods and abundant gravity fed water are two of my criteria for an ideal place to weather any storm, whether it be an economic collapse or worse. As I have mentioned many times, around here on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic, the soil is fertile and most plants flourish. Heck, we […]

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Chasing The Water Source To The End Of The Road

In this third and final post about where the water comes from that supplies the coastal villages in this region of the north coast of the Dominican Republic, we venture even further out to the rocky rivers that run off the mountains and feed our system of canals and viaducts. As you will see in […]

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Outback To The Viaducts To See Where The Water Comes From

This is my second post tracing the source of the water that feeds Nagua, Cabrera and other little coastline villages along this portion of the north coast of the Dominican Republic. We wind our way through severl small little villages and take a quick look at how people live in these little off-the-beaten-path communities as […]

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