Is there a destination that completely changed your life? That’s what the Dominican Republic did for me. But it’s only after I’d made my second trip to this island nation, that the authenticity of its culture and the pride of its people truly revealed themselves to me. I first visited the Dominican Republic (DR) in…
I wake to the sound of rain. Palm fronds brush against my window pane as the sweet, dewey dawn breeze breathes new life into my still slumbering room. I slowly come to my senses: savoring first the scents of the jungle. Citronella, trod and moistened by precipitation; hibiscus, blooming into sugary perfume; earth, fertile and…
The water trembles at the wriggle of my toes, sending a gentle ripple trundling outwards from the edge of my foot until it touches the invisible corners of the infinity pool and makes its escape by spilling over the edge. A slosh, as the water hits the hidden overflow channel and I look up from…