(Posted by: Doug)
Because, as things get chilly, as you turn up your heaters and wrap yourself in layers, as you check the 5 day forecast before you think of heading out of town for the weekend, we know that you're not at all sick of seeing photos of us sipping mango shakes and munching coconuts on spotless Caribbean beaches, we're back to tell you about the best one yet.
This weekend we went to the Samana province, off on the East part of the island, to a small beach town called Los Galeras. After some adventure getting there, including running away from a crazed old lady, we finally made it and chose a (bad) place to stay. Los Galeras is known for having "Playa Rincon" in its vicinity, which carries the tag line, "one of the top 5 beaches in the world." Though we were close, we actually never even made it to this beach. We did, however, see some pretty great stuff but did not bring our camera for much of it. Here's what we did take some shots of, though. Fairly short post on this one.
Argh.
Looks nice, but the dumpiest place we've stayed so far by a long shot. On the other hand, super nice restaurant here run by an awesome Romanian family.
Hands down the best food we've had in this country. Run by a super nice Italian lady with remarkable culinary skills.
From left: Bridget, JP (who's clearly very pleased), Stace, and Caitlin at dinner.
Island off the coast of the main beach (but by no means the nicest) of Los Galeros.
More dinner.
We ran by this painting of the main character from Stacy's favorite book of all time, The Little Prince. 
Except for a few motorbikes, it was nice and quiet here. Good times.P.S. Please email Stacy and/or leave comments requesting that Stacy once again grace this blog with her presence. There's a bunch of shots from her birthday that need to get posted, but I have as yet been unable to talk her into it:(
