Half of Hispanola
Four Visits - 2006-2016
09.01.2006 - 03.11.2016
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2015 Grenada (and 2013)
& Summer, 9-11-2001 - and then the 2nd time down the ICW
& 2010 Yellowstone and Hawaii
& 2008 Lighthouses and a Wedding in CT
& 2008 Winter Road Trip
& Grandeur of the Seas and Pearl
& AFV Winter 2006
& Back to Back 2006 Holland American Cruises
& Celebrity Cruise 2010
& 2013 Disney B2B
& 2011 Back to Back Enchantment of the Seas and Lighthousing Driving South
& 2011 A Marine graduation, and B2B on Pride
& 2011 Alaska
& 2013 Maasdam cruise
& Antigua and Montserrat
& 2007 The Sparkling Emerald Isle
& 2014-St Croix
& 2016 A Family Reunion and a Wedding
& 2009 Baltic Cruise
& 2012 Trip to Australia
& Five Visits to Barbados
& Bermuda
& 2015 Compo and Doc Martin
& 2015 Costa Rica (plus 1996 and 2008)
& 2008 Med Cruise
& 2014 - Visit to Vermont
& 2014 - Texas
& 2016-Carnival Sunshine
& 2016 Tulip Cruise
& 2008 Panama Canal
& Grand Turk
on greatgrandmaR's travel map.
Prequel
When I retired in 2000, we started traveling south on our sailboat for the winter. But when we ran aground in the middle of the channel south of wrightsville Beach NC, Bob decided that it was too stressful to commute south by boat. Bob's brother convinced him to take a cruise to Bermuda and he also told us about the Space Available Condos that are available to retired military. So after the Bermuda cruise, I started booking Space/A condos going south along the coast.
In the winter of 2005-2006, I found a condo a Space/A condo available in Santo Domingo.
End Prequel
You should not confuse the Dominican Republic with Dominica which is a completely different place. The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Republic of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that are shared by two sovereign states. The Dominican Republic is the second-largest Caribbean nation by area (after Cuba) at 18,792 sq mi, and third by population with approximately 10,299,000 people of whom approximately three million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city.
Circling around to the Santo Domingo airport - Dominican Republic
Our first visit was a week January 9-16, 2006 at this condo.
Hotel from the side street - Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo City Tour 
Picture of the lighthouse from the taxi - Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic Aquarium
Barracuda swimming over the tunnel - Santo Domingo
Saona Island 
A Walk on the Coast and 
Shore walk
A Visit to the Botanical Garden
Waterlilies - Bob's picture - Santo Domingo
Our next visit was on the NCL Pearl to the south coast - December 2007 Discover Samaná
Roadside stand - Las Terrenas
Then January 2011, we went on Enchantment of the Seas Whale Watching
And last on 3 November 2016, I visited the Dominican Republic north coast on Carnival Sunshine to the new Carnival port at Amber Cove
Dock from a long way away - Amber Cove
And we did a tour to Puerto Plata
Each day of the condo visit and each one of the cruise ship visits is a separate section
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