Woke at 5:00 AM. Jumped online and finished some business items. Cracked first Bohemia Grande. Packed a few things. Enjoyed 2nd Bohemia Grande. Showered down and suited up.
9:00 AM take a motoconcho to the autopista near La Vega Caribe Tour station. $RD40 pesos for motoconcho.
Bought ticket on next bus due at 9:30 AM to Sosua. $RD280 pesos. 3rd and 4th Bohemia grande waiting for bus at Colmado next to bus station. Like airports, bus stops are a great people watching place. Shoot the breeze with other passangers waiting for bus.
Bus arrives around 10:00 AM. two stops in Santiago. 2nd stop there is a 10 minute opportunity to get off for biological and get food. I take my bag with me and get off for both. Buy two papa rellenos. Eat and get back on bus.
A papa relleno is a mashed potatoe ball with spicey ground beef in the center all deep fried so the outside of the potatoe is crisp.
Caribe Tours is a good bus line. Most all the stuff is in working order. There is A/C that is too cold. The seats are comfortable. Their drivers wear uniforms including a tie and everything is surprising well organized.
The Puerto Plata bus station stop a couple of hours later. Then 3 more quick stops along the road to Sosua. Get to Sosua / Charimicos area just west of the Sosua Beach about 1:00 PM. Literally step from the bus and onto a motoconcho and off to NG. $RD40 pesos for moto.
I like Transporte Del Cibao and will probably take it to go back if they will agree to make the unscheduled stop near mi casa. Nothing works and the A/C comes from open windows. The driver is in street clothes and carries a pistol stuffed in his pants. There are chickens and other livestock on the bus.
They stop all along the way to pick up anyone that waves them down and make out of the way stops for passanger requests. No problem pounding beers and the occasional chica onboard. It just has that 3rd world flavor like in the classics.
Arrive NG a little after 1:00.
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