Good morning!   Tammy here...this time sharing our adventures in Cabarete, Sosua, and Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. On December 5, we left Santo Domingo by taking the Caribe Tours bus to Sosua.  Again, it cost only $10 per person to go 4.5 hours to the North Coast.  Super modern bus with WiFi and very easy to figure out where to board.  Departing the bus in Sosua was another story.  We stopped on the side of a super busy highway.  When exiting the bus there were a ton of people yelling at us.  We thought they were trying to get on the bus.  Turns out they were trying to get our attention to give us a moto or taxi ride.  Again, thanks to Google Maps for giving us great walking directions to our next AirBnb stay. We stayed in Nick's Place for 4 nights.  I just realized I should probably share the nightly rates for our AirBnb stays.  We found the AirBnb's in the Dominican Republic are less expensive than Mexico.  Most of ...

Hi again,  On December 1, we left Punta Cana  and headed to the big-city and beach in Santo Domingo; the capital city of the Dominican Republic.   We took an APTPRA bus to Santo Domingo.  It costed $9 per person to ride about 3.5 hours through the countryside.  Ticket purchasing was super easy with the assistance from our super helpful taxi driver.  We couldn't figure out why the bag porter was acting weird with our bags.  Lightbulb moment....we didn't pay for bags.  He sure had a big smile on his face when we grabbed our bags and gave him a nice tip to compensate for our mistake.  We also did not know we had assigned seats. We discovered this before the ride started.  The bus was pretty empty, but each stop more and more people got on and in the end the bus was full.  Second floor seats for us.  We were surprised that everyone on the bus plays their stuff out loud so there was music and videos playing and people talking o...