// DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

// DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Having spent more than two years in South America, I decided I should visit Indiana and see family before continuing on to Central America. I found a very cheap flight from Brazil to the resort town of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, and then another cheap flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico back to the US. The trick would be getting from the DR to PR, but fortunately there's an overnight ferry (it seems my time traveling by boat was not yet finished). Punta Cana was horrible, a stretch of beautiful beaches carved up by private corporations like lots along a strip mall, each enforcing a colored wristband system that prevented one from leaving the geo-fenced gated prisons of the resorts. I was staying with a local family, so it was even worse for me, as I had no resort to report to. But I quickly made my way to Bayahibe, a gem of a coastal village, and then later to the capital of Santo Domingo, and finally a road trip into the mountains of San Jose de Ocoa. All in all, it was a lovely little island.