On a weekend when we had not much to do, we decided to explore “locally” within the US. On the basis of suggestions made by Bhavna who had a fascinating experience, we tried to explore the White Sands National Monument which left us spellbound. So, on a sunny Saturday morning, we took a flight to…
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This post is part of a series called Dominican Republic Dec 2017/Jan 2018 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic We had been through Santo Domingo a couple of times in the past, but just in transit to one of the beach resorts in Puerto Plata, and had never stopped in Santo Domingo to explore it. This time,…
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This post is part of a series called Dominican Republic Dec 2017/Jan 2018 In late December 2017, we decided to go spend New Year’s eve celebrating a friends’ birthday in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. So after finishing up the Colombia Cartagena trip, we came back to Dallas, and then took off to Punta Cana via…
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This post is part of a series called Colombia Dec 2017 Cartagena Part 2, Colombia Dec 2017 Next part of Cartagena to explore was the market; so we took a taxi to Mercado Bazuto the ride cost us $5 from Bocagrande. Most taxi or uber rides in Cartagena cost us between $2.80 and $5 one…
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This post is part of a series called Colombia Dec 2017 Cartagena Part 1, Colombia Dec 2017 After a short business trip; we decided to explore Cartagena, Colombia, since we had liked Cali and Medellin earlier. We flew to Cartagena via Miami, and when the plane landed in Cartagena, the people in the plane started…
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