My family and I have only recently started taking advantage of a generous offer that was first made a year and a half ago when we moved off the OMS grounds and relocated up the mountainside. Our new landlord told us from the start that we were welcome to use his family’s beach house for occasional getaways if we desired. That sounded like a GREAT idea to us, but most free time – and spare energy – during our first six months were spent getting settled and doing projects around the house. Then came the civil unrest and for most of the past year we have often felt “under house arrest” – leaving home only to go to work (when possible) and then returning straight home. No unnecessary trips into town, rarely eating out, no travel after dark. Praise God, the unrest began to settle finally in December and the peace has held so far in 2020. Over Christmas break, Melissa pushed for us to finally check out this beach house we had seen from a distance but never visited. After a successful day outing to the site before Christmas, we decided it wouldn’t take too much effort or budget to do overnight visits there on a semi-regular basis. With a bit of the money we weren’t spending on a trip to the States or even the Dominican Republic over break, we bought a couple of air mattresses, a little gas burner for cooking, and a few kitchen supplies, and we were good to go.(So far we have enjoyed a three day stint with Caleb the first week in January and an overnighter this past weekend.)The house is a beautiful structure in an idyllic location. It’s on the backside of the mountain we live on. I’m sure if there was a tunnel, we could walk there in twenty minutes or so:
But there’s no tunnel or even a road to this beach house – you have to drive through Cap Haitien, past Cormier and the cruise ship property, and park at the end of the road … then hire a water taxi, like this one, for a short trip across the bay:
Ginger stays home and fends for herself when we have gone so far. Sugar, on the other hand, would survive maybe 90 seconds unsupervised, so we have to bring the little beast with us.
We’ve also found some excellent rice and beans and pates for sale in the village during lunchtimes.
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