Well hi there! What’cha up to? Not much you say? Just surfing the web? You wanna take a little photo tour of my neighborhood? You do?! Awesome! Step right up! Ok folks, no pushing, everyone gets to come along, this is after all, an electronic tour. Geez.

Ok. So. Stepping outside of my gate, across the street we see a big purple and yellow building. Yes, that’s right, purple and yellow. This is the headquarters of the PLD (Partido de la Liberación Dominicana - the Dominican Liberation Party - which is the party of the current president). I find the difference in what we see as appropriate political colors and what Dominicans see as political colors to be very interesting. There are always a ton of people coming and going here, and a couple of watchmen all night who play music which you can sometimes hear softly in my room.

It has a ton of great murals,

and this one in particular always reminds me of my Dad – the heads look just like him when he had short hair and a beard. Hi Dad!

Walking up the street we see the corner that is a flower shop in the morning, and a painter’s studio and gallery in the afternoon. Since it’s 3pm, we can see the paintings on display.

In the afternoons the flower woman moves across the street to another corner. I really wonder what this arrangement is about.
Across the street, conveniently located about 100 yards from my apartment is a local branch of a big supermarket chain here, La Cadena (which literally means the chain).
On the cross street we see my local internet café, J&G Computers. Isn't this an exciting tour? Aren't you so glad you decided to come along? Me too!!

This guy is selling coconuts – you can see guys with these types of carts selling all kinds of things – mangos, avocadoes, etc. – all over the city.

One block over and we can visit the first apartment I lived in – it’s the top floor of the building straight ahead. Across the street from this building is my favorite colmado, the front is all one big long porch.
This colmado is so great it's actually a supercolmado. (whenever I see this sign I think of SuperWawas)

So now we’re back to my street,
walking home
and now we’re here! This is my building
and this is my little apartment!
I hope you all enjoyed visiting me – it was lovely to have you here :). Please come again soon!

Tomorrow at the ungodly hour of 5am I take off for the north coast for a long weekend, so look for some awesome beach and kite-surfing shots next week. Love you all!