We take a few days, leaving the boat, to visit Santa Domingo, 4 hours away by bus. This city was founded by Columbus' family in 1495. We attend mass at the oldest cathedral, Santa Maria...something...in the New World and visit the first monestery and the first paved street, the "Avenue of the Ladies" where ladies would show off their finery. We visited the house of Columbus' son Diago, the Alcazar Cologne. The DR folks are fine people and we enjoyed it here a lot. We also met lots of cruisers who are sailing the same course that we are, towards the Panama Canal in about a year. We look forward to catching up with from time to time along the way south.

We don't linger but push on to Puerto Rico after only a week because the big wedding day for son, Geoff and Marla is coming is less than a month and we don't want to get stuck north of the Mona passage as can sometimes happen.

Oldest Cathedral	Interior of Cathedral	Columbus son's house	His dining table rebuilt
Oldest Ave in New World	Oldest Monestery-ruins	Chuck in Plaza	Are we eating again???