road trip

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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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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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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Videos – SW Dominican Republic Road Trip – Day 5

So we managed to backtrack and make our way back up the main national highway, Autopista Duarte, headed back up toward Constanza and Jarabacoa.  Because we were running out of daylight, we decided to stop overnight in the town of Bonao at just another of the many quaint little hotels we discovered along the way. […]

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Videos – SW Dominican Republic Road Trip – Day 4

So here we are on day four of our whirlwind road trip through the southwest of the Dominican Republic.  Actually we are headed back up from the southwest more toward the central region of the country.  We will show you a few of the quaint places we discovered along the way and explain our expectations […]

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Videos – SW Dominican Republic Road Trip – Day 3

On the third day of our whirlwind roadtrip of the southwest region of the Dominican Republic, we ventured up the border of Haiti on a true 4wd rock road, up from Pedernales back over to the Barahona area. It turned out to be great road for four-wheeling but not so great for video. We did […]

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Videos – SW Dominican Republic Road Trip – Day Two

On day two of our road trip through the southwest region of the Dominican Republic we head for the southern-most towns and explore some of the more interesting sights.  Along the way we stumbled on a quaint little 8 room hotel and Italian restaurant.  WOW! this was a great authentic experience.  We probably had the […]

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