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the bike is ready!

Posted on March 29, 2009 by admin

Yesterday was an exciting day as I insured my bike (less than $20/month), registered it, and got my permit! Eventually I will have to get my endorsement, but for the time being, I am ok with the restrictions that accompany the permit. I took it for a long ride yesterday and today. It is a lot of fun touring around parts of town I don’t normally visit and seeing things I don’t often see.

Friday night I went to a party and Ben and Lis’ house which was a lot of fun. I learned a game called Mafia which I anticipate I will have the opportunity to play many times in the future. It was a lot of fun.

Saturday evening we celebrated Jesus’ 31st birthday with some fajitas and Pacificos. We played a few hours of Texas Hold ‘Em where I successfully managed to win my money back!

I started Edmund Opitz’s The Libertarian Theology of Freedom which I was inspired to get after reading his introduction in Albert J. Nock’s Our Enemy the State recently. I am pretty impressed thus far and I’ve made my way through about a third of it.

“The sincere intention of the collectivist or the planner is to help people. But he chooses to help people through political action, which when spelled out means helping some people by hurting others.”

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Tila’s big day

Posted on March 17, 2009 by admin

Yunuen is in Mexico at the moment with the dogs as she took Tila down to be spade. We’ve been wanting to do this for some time so that we prevent any unwanted pregnancies. We are chatting on the webcam at the moment and she showed me Tila who looks like death! Hopefully she’ll have a quick recovery.

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shooting lessons

Posted on March 14, 2009 by admin

Ben hired me for shooting lessons today – so we headed off to the Three Points range for a few hours of shooting at the zombie holding paper plates. I have come to realize that I shoot far better in the first 30 minutes than I will for the entire remaining time. This of course is very disappointing.

Today I mostly used a couple .22 revolvers and a Smith & Wesson .40 pistol. I find that I still prefer his glock.

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another sick day

Posted on March 11, 2009 by admin

Yun and I ate at yet another filthy ‘restaurant’ last night and as a consequence, it was her night to be horribly sick. I went out early this morning to get the paramox as she is not doing too well.

I received an email from Ben this morning notifying me of the publication of his article on the prestigious Von Mises Institute’s web site. I read the article to Yun and she began to immediately feel better! click the image below to be forwarded to his article.

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playa guayacanes and paramox 500

Posted on March 10, 2009 by admin

The night before last I harvested a colony of parasites somewhere in my body. I came to this realization about 2am when I made my first of many visits to the bano. I was in horrible shape the next day, so unfortunately didn’t spend much time out of bed. Fortunately, the owners of our new hotel recommended paramox 500 which we found at a local ‘pharmacy’. It was very successful and very prompt and by the end of the night, I felt significantly better.

As such, today I felt great so Yun and I took a guagua out of Santo Domingo toward the city of Juan Dolio. A guagua is a local ‘bus’ (for lack of better term) that are used by the locals (same as a Turkish dolmas). It got us to playa guayacanes for about $2.oo as opposed to $30-$40 by cab.

The beach was alright – we were anticipating something closer to what we found in Cancun, which is not exactly what we found. The sand was nice enough and the water was pretty clear, but not warm enough to get too far in.

I found a couple cute puppies following me around on the beach, so I took a few dozen photos.

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Tres Ojos

Posted on March 8, 2009 by admin

Later today we made our way to Tres Ojos (three eyes). The ‘eyes’ refer to three subterranean lakes. They were well worth the visit as the photos below demonstrate. There was a fourth lake that we had to take a ‘boat’ through one of the caves to get to. We could see plenty of bats circling above our heads.

The floors of these caves are filled with beautiful circular lakes fed by the Brujuelas, a subterranean river. The sulfurous waters of the first lake are only about 20 feet deep. The second, named La Nevera or “refrigerator”, drops to 15 degrees centigrade. The Women’s Lake, the third and smallest, is warm and shallow. A fourth lake, measuring 300 meters deep, is named Los Saramagullones after a species of ducks that inhabits it.

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Faro de Colon

Posted on March 8, 2009 by admin

We went to ‘Faro de Colon’ today which is the tomb of Cristobel Colon (ie, Christopher Columbus). The ‘faro’ looks like a modern day penetentary and is apparently quite controversial because of this and the amount of money that was invested into its construction. We only spent about 20 minutes there as we were going to Tres Ojos immediately after.

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Hayek made his first appearance in the Dominican!

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segundo dia en la RD

Posted on March 7, 2009 by admin

Yun and I spent the day wandering around the Colonial Zone of SD. We had lunch in the house of Nicolas de Ovando who replaced Christopher’s Columbus’ son as Governor when he passed away.

It was very tasty, but unfortunately not authentic Dominican food. We came back to our hotel and took a ridiculously long nap which was wonderful. We were later awoken by a concert outside our window which was entertaining.

We spent most of the night again touring the Colonial Zone in hopes to find a place to eat. We ended up at Ristorante La Briciola.

The restaurant was really quite nice. There was live piano music to add to the ambience. I ordered spaghetti pecorino and Yunuen had rissotto milano. Again, not authentic Dominican food, but good nonehtheless. We have yet to actually eat Dominican food – perhaps tomorrow.

We eventually made it back to our hotel to enjoy some wine and shisha! The owners of our hotel are very nice and we had the opportunity to speak with them at length.

Earlier in the day we stumbled across a house with an open window. Inside there were some desks setup to roll cigars. I took some photos and sought desperately for a way in – but that was not to be. We went to a cigar shop today where the cigars were absurdly overpriced! I don’t believe I saw anything under $30/stick for a Dominican cigar I can get in the US for $5-$10. Apparently these things are rolled for export. I still anxiously anticipate the possibility of visiting a cigar factor or tobacco plantation.

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Santo Domingo!

Posted on March 6, 2009 by admin

Yun and I arrived in Santo Domingo about an hour ago and made it to Coco Boutique where we are staying for a few days. It is warm, but with a nice breeze. We had arranged for a guy named Jesus to pick us up from the airport who turned out to be helpful and nice. We may hire him for a day to tour around the city. We may head to the beach at Juan Dolio tomorrow so as to enjoy the warm Carribbean water.

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so you’re saying we should invade Iran?

Posted on February 13, 2009 by admin

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