Exited around 3AM for the drive to Westchester County, N.Y. and then Westchester County Airport (HPN) for a jetBlue flight to SDQ (Santo Domingo) with a stop in Orlando, Florida (MCO). At HPN (small airport), jetBlue had one counter with two workers, small group of people in front of me on line, seems some were maybe high school baseball players traveling to Florida and other people heading to Florida. Flight time to Orlando was about 2:40. About a three hour layover in Orlando (the original reservation I had was to fly into Ft. Lauderdale with a longer layover, but jetBlue changed the flight to Orlando with a shorter layover). At MCO had two glasses of red wine at Cibao Express and then had garlic knots and pizza at Famous Famiglia Pizza.
Sat next to a guy who works with surgeons in the DR, he was born in Santo Domingo, while his father was a diplomat there from a European country. Nice older guy, we chatted, he stays at the El Embajador Hotel and won't drive in the DR.
At SDQ bought a $12US bottle of wine at duty free, with a twist off top (I had forgotten to bring a corkscrew). Then stopped at Alamo/National. I made the reservations at least 24 hours before arrival, online, used a coupon from American Casino Guide, Alamo insiders also get 5% off (free to join). Then took the escalator up to the second floor, changed money at the BanReservas money exchange booth (42.xx exchange rate). Then walked over to the cigar store, bought a robusto size E.P. Carrillo Dominican made cigar and ordered an Illy coffee. Two cute chicas from Boca Chica work at the cigar store.
After the cigar and coffee, took the escalator down, exited the airport building and went to the rental car parking lot, which is across the street adjacent to the airport parking lot. Said hello to the guys I know there (I couldn't find the rental paperwork that was given to me 15 minutes earlier, no problem, I called a chica at the cigar store and asked if I had left them there and she said no). Blue Nissan Versa with about 10k miles on the odometer. Exited the airport after 3PM.
Drove to Boca Chica to visit Senior Tranquilos, his gate facing Calle Duarte was down at that time, so I thought he wasn't open at that time (I was later told that the beach side was open). Drove along Duarte lots of people walking around, cuties, made a right maybe at the Church, then the next right and eventually drove past the hot food stalls and saw one chica with a nice body in a bikini getting food there. Got a call from an ISOC member who was in Santo Domingo and I told him I would be in the capital in about thirty minutes.
Drove to the street where the rental apartment was located in La Esperilla, Santo Domingo (near Ave. Maximo Gomez and UNAPEC University). First time staying there so I had to find the building. Sent a message to the owner using whatsapp (no wifi, works with the Claro sim card I had in an unlocked Nokia E71). Owner was in front of the building in a few minutes, I had paid online with a credit card for the first few nights, with AIRBNB.COM, $50US per night, included everything. Was given two keys (one for the outside gate and one for the apartment) and a fob with three buttons that open the electric sliding gate for the building's parking, plenty of space in the parking area. Maybe guys from Haiti work at the building, they were nice, said hello to them in Kreyol. Nice apartment, one bedroom, A/C (never used it, lots of windows and a breeze), new coffee maker and packets of coffee, bottles of water and beer, chips and cookies. New utensils and linens from IKEA, new flat screen TV and WIFI. Owner said no problem for me to smoke cigars (I smoked at a table near an open window).
Invited some chica I had in whatsapp for a drink (from badoo or tagged). She arrived around 8PM with a cousin. I said I wanted to go to Fuente Cigar Lounge, she said she knew of a cigar lounge on Ave. 27 de Febrero. I entered 27 de Febrero at Ave. Tiradentes and drove west to almost Plaza de Banderas, no traffic. Didn't see the cigar lounge she knew. I made a right on the street where Penthouse was/is located (just before plaza de banderas, north of 27 de febrero) and pulled into the parking area for the building, Penthouse is on the roof of a 3 or 4 story building (only other time I visited I walked stairs to the roof). I asked the chicas if they wanted to visit a casa de citas, they were like what for (if I knew for sure Penthouse was open, I would have visited then with them). Then drove Fuente Cigar Lounge.
A few glasses of wine at Fuente and a cigar (they smoked a bit of my cigar). After Fuente went to D'Luis Parrillada for some food, then Lulu in Zona Colonial for some drinks and a E.P Carrillo cigar, purchased at LuLu. Then to Pure in the Hotel Sheraton. They wanted some shots of tequila, no problem. They took off their shoes, dancing, grinding, one gave a nice lapdance. After Pure, at around 3AM, they said they wanted a pool. Eventually we decided a cabana with a jacuzzi and wound up at costa azul. Both got naked for the jacuzzi, ordered some food, watched porno from the jacuzzi, etc. Eventually dropped them off at Agora Mall at around 7AM. I drove east on Ave. Kennedy after dropping them off, sun rises in the east, no sunglasses in the car yet, I was driving slow, light changed to red as I entered an intersection, AMET guy there radioed other AMET guys on the far corner and I was motioned to pull over, they said I went through the light. Young AMET guy was nice, his supervisor was there and had to give me a ticket. He rode in the back seat while I drove to a parking lot on Ave. Independencia at Avenida Maximo Gomez (adjacent to an Alamo/National rental office). Parked the car there and given the ticket and was told I could pay at BanReservas Bank about a 30 second walk from the lot (on Ave. Maximo Gomez). It was around 7:15AM, the bank opened at 8AM. Dozed off a few times while sitting in front of the bank with other people around me who were also waiting for the bank to open. Eventually paid the fine (about 1000 pesos) cute and friendly teller at the bank. Guy sits outside the AMET parking lot where the rental was, with a small copy machine, paid him to make copies (AMET wants copies). Got back to the rental, was now blocked in a bit but managed to get to the exit, drove to the apartment went to sleep.
Originally Posted by Jao
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