From the archives // The best of the Dominican Republic

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There are some posts in the archives that are just as relevant now as they were when I wrote them (up to six years ago!). Once a week, I share one of my favorite posts that I still love to read today. Enjoy!

The Dominican Republic was one of my favorite kind of trips: those ones that are thrown together on an impulse, where suddenly you have a plane ticket and a hotel reservation and something to look forward to before you even realized you agreed to go in the first place. But somebody had a January birthday (!), I had a lot of JetBlue miles saved up and it just wouldn’t stop snowing in New York City: a trifecta of nudges pushing us toward the Caribbean.

It’s easy to have an easy vacation in the Dominican Republic: easy to roll out of the airplane and right into one of the all-inclusive resorts that line the West Coast. For better or for worse, I like to relax once I feel like I’ve earned it–and with a nightmare of a rental car situation (three flat tires! getting lost for two hours on dirt roads! being rescued by the military police on a pitch-black road!) that turned a three-hour drive into a eight-hour ordeal, I think we deserved every ounce of relaxation that finally came at Casa Bonita. Stories will come, but until then: a collection of some of my favorite photos from our three days outside of Barahona. (Of course, my Artifact Uprising book of the trip has already been created!)

The view from our balcony on one side…

And the view from our balcony from the opposite angle…

And the view from our balcony looking down. Not bad, Casa Bonita. Not bad.

The infinity pool that I never wanted to leave.

Ingredients for the happiest of happy hours = 1 fresh coconut + 2 shots cold rum. My best tip: buy a bottle of rum in duty-free at the airport, and then keep the coconuts coming!