Where It All Began

[emo_snal]

( What came before   It's a beautiful sunny morning in the Dominican Republic. The woman sitting across from us at the outdoor table hands me a pen and with a broad smile tells me "I just need you to sign right here." I look over at Cristina, but she looks at me with a blank expression, her large brown eyes expressing a zenful lack of guidance,

Comments

[iddewes]

You two look adorable together! I am kind of surprised that things still seem to be quite sketchy in DR though as it is quite a big tourist destination - I have known people who got married there too, and that was just typical Brits, not adventurous sorts.

[emo_snal]

Well most of the sketch in this entry is the fault of the hotel I guess, but it's weird because like I said it wasn't some sketchy seeming hotel, it was a well reviewed popular seeming place. But their tour booking guy instead of having brochures like a professional (and frankly it would have seemed more normal to meet him in an office or at least at a table instead of him standing in an out door hallway) had a bunch of sort of pieces of posterboard with pictures stuck onto them, like god damn fifth grade projects or something. And I would have expected him to have a planned Santo Domingo itinerary and to link us up with a tour guide there instead of just letting us stumble around till one swooped us up. Weirdly lacking in professional quality.

[wantedonvoyage]

As far as I know most people, at least most Americans, who visit the DR stay in fenced-in resort compounds and never leave them. emo_snal and my friend who dated a Dominican man are the only people I know other than missionaries that actually engaged the locals.

[emo_snal]

Lol haha oh could explain why they weren't prepared for me to go wandering around Santo Domingo lol. I'm sure my travel habits differ significantly from your average american ;)

[wantedonvoyage]

I believe you're right. Many of us seem to want to go somewhere and pretend we haven't left home, which explains why so many of our towns and cities look more and more alike.

[iddewes]

Very true - yes probably those people did just go to a big resort.