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Water Water Everywhere – Where Does Our Water Come From In Cabrera

Do you ever speak before your brain catches up? I did that recently when one of the readers asked me a simple question. He asked “You say there is plenty of fresh water in Cabrera, but where does the water come from?” Of course, my immediate response was “We will go shoot a short video […]

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Afternoon Stopover At One Of The Cabrera Waterfalls And The Rice Fields

We had a little time to kill on the way back from Nagua to Cabrera so we explored a little off-the-beaten-path road out to some of the rice fields, then we had a little stopover at the waterfall right in the town of Cabrera.  The waterfall supplies some of the water for the town of […]

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Headed To The Crab Shack To See Where The Road Ended

It really is amazing how much things have changed here in Cabrera over the last 15 years, or so.  When I first came to the north coast of the Dominican Republic the main highway from Cabrera to nearby Nagua was not even a continuous road.  At the site of my favorite Crab Shack, at the […]

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Lunch At Mira Mar And A Drive Through Cabrera

We had a few hours to kill between visits from families participating in the free north coast discovery tour.   It has been very interesting meeting and talking to families from all over the world as they allowed us to escort them on our little off-the-beaten-path tours of the north coast.  Most of the reactions have […]

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Freedom Has Many Definitions

Ask 100 people what freedom means and you’ll probably get 100 different answers. Freedom means something different to almost every one of us. While returning our last visitor to the airport the conversation of freedom came up and it actually was what inspired me to compose this post entitled “Freedom Has Many Definitions”. When you’re […]

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My Interview With Chris Martenson

Ever since my interview with Chris Martenson I haven’t had the opportunity to compose any new posts. The good folks arriving have kept me up and running and I guess you could say I’ve been busier than a one armed wallpaper hanger. However I now have a couple of days to catch up on things […]

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Sustainable Living In Cabrera Dominican Republic – Local Home Tour

On a recent DYD tour, my friend Christopher wanted to focus our tour on anything related to sustainable living since that is his passion.  What an interesting week.  We headed off the routine route and up into the hills to get a taste of life up in the hills.  We drove up in the mountains […]

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James Wesley Rawles Links ISIS to the CIA – Explains Key Benefits Of Expatriation

In the most controversial segment of our interview with best selling survival author, James Wesley Rawles, we get a new insight into how ISIS might have achieved such a meteoric rise in power and prominence is such a short span of time.  James’ theory certainly would explain how ISIS could have grown in power so rapidly, […]

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James Westley Rawles: Baby The Rain Must Fall

Recently I had the opportunity to share in a second interview with James Westley Rawles. This time around it was more of a fire side chat together than a formal interview. We’re almost finished the editing and won’t be long before you’ll be seeing it on both the web site and the DR Escapes YouTube […]

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Being In the Green

I’d like you to think on the above title and then ask yourself what does being in the green mean to you. Of course your answers will differ but each one would still be correct. WHY …Because it’s correct for you and therefore becomes your reality. But seriously think about this before continuing. What does […]

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