I was basically in transit of some sort from 10 am to 8 pm today. It was exhausting, but a generally good day. Erin, Perry, and I made our way to the 27 waterfalls today. It was my second time going, but was still gorgeous. To my surprise, somehow the novelty of it had worn off a bit since it was my second time even though it involved jumping and sliding down waterfalls. This time I got to climb up some of them though, which was a new and awesome experience. Literally, for some of them you grab onto the rope and just walk up it against the water. For other ones the guides just boost you up. Pretty sweet.
I could explain to you about the 4-5 buses/cars we took there and then back to Santo Domingo, but that is even boring for me to think about so I’ll pass. The thing that I do love about Dominican transportation though is that you can stand along any main highway, wave your hand at a passing bus, and they’ll come and pick you up. No official stops needed except at the beginning and the end (but then it’s just usually a turning around point and not much more than that). You can also get off at any point you want by just yelling at the cobrador to let you off. It’s a sweet system for people who want to travel very specific distances, but unfortunately means a lot of stopping and starting that you wouldn’t have in a more conventional system.
Here are some pictures stolen from Google so you can see what the waterfalls look like:
Tomorrow was supposed to be spent going to loan meetings in the morning, but Ramona has no meetings tomorrow and I already went to Rosa Iris’. I called her to try to go with her anyway and there just ended up being a super awkward conversation in which I couldn’t really hear/understand what she was saying but it basically made it sound like it wouldn’t be worthwhile for me to head out anyway. I suppose I can spend time writing things up that I’ve been putting off and will likely forget to do once I return to the US and the rush of real life begins again.
