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Life in Luperon, Dominican Republic We're meeting a lot of cruisers headed west through Puerto Rico & onto the Dominican Republic.  This is the advice we share.  (Forgive my poor Espanol.  Look up all the proper words in case I'm LOCO!) I took four years of Spanish in high school but never put it to use (Nada for El Capitan, but it quickly became a competition).  I made several visits to Mexico for work, but my "Hola" was always greeted with something I couldn't understand, so intimidated, I quit trying.  As we headed south from the Bahamas, I started brushing up.  Even using Rosetta Stone for a time.  When we arrived in Luperon, Dominican Republic (from now on, DR), our first customs officer spoke perfect English.  It went downhill from there.  None of the other officers spoke English (but clearly understood our questions).  "What?" was answered with handwritten pesos!   In school, the first thing they teach you is "Buenos Dias...

In this edition particularly we will talk about tips, ideas and technology for going green living that will make theenvironment happy as well. Nature is the best gift of God to human beings which is worth to value for. Making your own surrounding, backyards, community lawns and jog areas green and fresh to breathe is worth to be done. More and more routine efforts to maintain the green and allow the freshness to relief you is more than enough. Healthy living supports you live longer devoid of diseases and infections. Surrounded with green, breathing fresh, staying happy, laughing loud, all these are what life is about Let's have a glance on some tips, ideas and technology for going green living:  Save water reduce wastage: Water is precious and wasting it at the same speed as done now will very soon lead to deadly water scarcity. Try to control the water wastage in your routine and in your surrounding and make the water precious to be used till long time as much possible. Make you...