Unexpected Weather...

HELLO!

Just when I thought that I was getting the hang of this country and getting truly back into the swing of things after my nice Christmas break...

more rain!

This past weekend, I was originally slated to go up to my friend Patrick's site to ride some horses. He called me to tell me that it was raining a bunch up there and that it might not be worth my trip. Perhaps testing fate, I decided that it might be a good idea to try to get up there anyway and just hang out, if nothing else. Well...

I arrived at the stop to go to his house a good half an hour before he told me to get there. It turns out, the only truck that went up to his campo had left over TWO HOURS BEFORE because it was raining and the driver did not want to wait anymore.

Instead of returning to my site, I found another place to stay in a different town close to where I was. I ended up having to bunker down there for three days while I waited for the weather to clear. Finally, after all that time, I woke up yesterday to a nice, blue, clear day with only a few clouds in the distance. As I got to my stop, it started to sprinkle, then rain, then downpour...

By the time I got to the 1st of three rivers that I need to cross in order to get to my site (normally a 30 foot bridge crossing), the river was around 150 feet wide (over the bridge) with trees 50 feet long and 4 feet in diameter in the mix. Not crossable...

So, back at my bunker-down spot for the evening, I awoke again this morning to more rain that I had even seen the past five days.

I thought hurricane season was OVER!!!

It's not so bad, but I'm tired of being rained on and I've been rotating the same 3 shirts for the past week. And I'd like to see the sun. I'm in the Dominican Republic, not Seattle.

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I have a snail-like Internet connection currently, so I'm going to sign off for now and help all the animals that are pairing up to board the Ark.

Stay warm and dry!!

David