Tamara Moves Out of Her House

Early this week was a big push to get things moved out of Tamara's house. Its not easy to motivate towards a moving day, even harder when its being planned while sitting on an excellent beach, and especially not easy when hot and sticky bus rides are involved. We said good bye to the Norwegians we met, we said good bye to the Canadians we met and Caberete to return to San Francisco de Macoris, the small city where she had been living since September 1st. Having finished the last of her volunteering projects the week prior, we could now focus on packing up and giving things away to prepare for our last four weeks in the country. These next weeks will be full of visiting other volunteers, a few famous natural features of the island and spending more time at the beach.

Now all packed up and the room cleaned it was time to take all the stuff to Santo Domingo, where the peace corps office it located. Our baggage now amounted to a suitcase, a duffel, a backpack, two daypacks, a camera bag, two computer bags, two boxes full of food, coffee, and tea, a bag of random things and two bags of books. There at the office, Tamara could donate books, clothing and other items to fellow volunteers whom could and did really appreciate the things. While Tamara was unpacking and organizing I found a flight that gets us back to Boston on Saturday morning ,May 21st. JetBlue leaves Santo Domingo at 2:05Am arrives New York for an hour stopover at 5:24Am before taking off for Boston and finally arriving there at 8:50Am.

The next adventure would take me up into the Dominican Alps to a village called Jarabacoa, where the focus was on hiking, biking, rafting, and horse back riding.