Eric, Mike, and Heidi in a plaza in the Colonial Zone
Eric, Mike, and Heidi in a plaza in the Colonial Zone
Mike and Heidi on the roof of the Fort of the old city entrance
Playing Settlers at Casa Goshen
Playing Settlers at Casa Goshen
At the Boca Chica beach on la Dia de Independencia (very crowded!)
The crowded beach
Ruth, Eric, and Heid at the beach
Ruth feeling some kicking :)
Helicopters flying by for a political rally?
Monche helping Eric with a domino move
Playing dominoes DR style with WIlliams Velez
Dinner with Williams and Monche
Monche and Margarita
Mike and Heidi and the Mirabel sisters Museum
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Ruth, Mike, and Heidi with Dona Dede, the surviving sister and local heroine
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The sisters who were killed
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A memorial to the sisters
The remains of the jeep where their murder was covered up
Looking down into a small village outside of Jarabacoa
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Mike and Heidi by a banana tree at Don Jose's organic farm
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Eric looking out at the mountains
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The drying coffee beans
The coffee bean fruit after being deshelled
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Eric eating some sugarcane
Goats running up the road
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This boy cut up the sugar cane for us to try
Mike's first taste of the cane
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Relaxing at the farm
Playing Settlers on the farm outside the cabin we stayed in.
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The bugs came out that night and we got several pictures of them
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The cabin where we stayed
The hut where we relaxed and ate dinner and breakfast
Don Jose and his wife
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Our bed with mosquito net
The town where the farm is
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This road sometimes gets washed out preventing people from going to Los Dajaos
A group getting ready to go rafting
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Ruth on a bridge to the falls
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The falls
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Relaxing back at Casa Goshen
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Maura cutting open a coconut for lunch
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The neighbor's caged rooster that squawked all night long
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Parakeets at the Velez house
Williams threats to shave Eric's beard in honor of the first grandchild
Mike and Heidi outside the cave restaurant overlooking Santo Domingo
Inside the cave restaurant
This spiral staircase leads down into the restaurant