My waterproof camera started acting up halfway through the trip – not quite dead but definitely not working well either. So once it started being tempermental, I stopped using it in the water. Luckily, my mom brought a disposable waterproof camera so we had a few other water pics… Shea loves my Tom Cruise circa […]
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Five Funniest Moments During Our Trip To The Dominican Republic
Before the trip, Pace and I kept playing The List Game (“Name five things you’re going to do on the beach”, “Name five things you’re going to eat at the buffet”, “Name five things you’ll do on the plane”) and that’s continued after our return home. Tonight, we (okay, mostly *I* since the things Pace remembered […]
Saturday Snap – On the Plane on the Way to Punta Cana
We forgot to get before & after pics like we did on the way to Cuba but here’s a photo of us on the way to Punta Cana… On The Plane to Punta Cana
Behind The Scenes at a 5-Star All-Inclusive Resort on the Mayan Riviera
After our recent holiday, I was interested in learning more about these mega-resorts (practically mini-cities) operate. This article provides a great overview on this subject, giving a behind-the-scenes tour of the same chain we stayed at in the Dominican Republic but from their Mayan Riviera complex.
Saturday Snap – Farewell to #PuntaCana #grandpalladium
Back from our week long holiday in the Dominican Republic and now the long sad process of unpacking and downloading all the pictures we took and catching up on neglected stuff at home begins. We’ll likely get a fuller album up on Facebook eventually but here’s one shot of us from the week taken by the […]
Weird Thoughts You Have While Flying
Very likely that there will be a week long blog holiday as we leave for the Dominican Republic tomorrow for a week’s holiday…
Travel Planning, Coincidence and (Another) Once In A Lifetime Experience
Recently, at my library, I delivered a program called “Trip Planning 2.0: How To Research Your Vacation Online” where I gave registrants a “guided tour” of some the most useful sites for trip planning, both well-known (Google, TripAdvisor) and lesser-known (Reddit, FourSquare). (The program was basically an expanded version of a blog post I did […]
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Our Tropical Vacation History
Some people go every year, some people go whenever they can afford it, and some people will never go to one, thinking they’re fake, inauthentic holidays. Shea and I are in that middle category – though we don’t go every year [edit: I lied – as of January 2020, we’ve been five years in a […]
The Dominican Republic
On our trip next week (next week!), I don’t think we’ll so much as leave our all-inclusive resort for a city tour or a catamaran excursion. But perhaps next time…