Brief Thoughts on the North Coast
Having previously made trips to the south coast, me and a buddy spent 5 days in Sosua and POP. I think there are plus and minus to each. We were both turned off by the money grubbing, hardcore pros in Classicos and Latinos so we focused on semi-pros and non-pros with bookend trips to La Passions at the beginning and end of the trip. We were both pleasantly surprised on the non-pro /semi-pro potential in POP and Caberete. I found that my much improved Espanol (thanks to Rosetta Stone and 6 trips to Latin American countries in the past year) opened up a variety of doors that were off limits to the average extranjero in any of the NC towns and barrios. I also had 48 hour passion / Brugal fueled "relationship" with a chica that existed completely in Spanish. We talked and screwed for hours but eventually things turned crazy when I told her my and my homeboy were going to Cabarete for the day. Well to make a long story short I had to have the security guy at my condo kick her out after profanity laced shouting match that would have made my Boricua neighbors proud. After dealing with "La Loca", I decided to be less honest w/ the chicas in the future.
We also checked out the bikini contest at Blackbeards, but we didn't stay and play. We definitely will next time. We were impressed w/ the chicas and we heard very positive reports from the guys that were staying there. The opening and closing day trips to La Passions were great. I didn't care about high pricing since I was focused on the non-pro scene on the other days. I've scene highly mixed reviews of the place, but we both had 2 high quality, high GFE sessions that each ran about 2 hours over the 1 hour $2500 DOP time limit. My 1st chica wanted me to come visit her on her day off / out of town in La Vega.
We spend a decent amount of time talking to U. S. Ex-pats getting their prospective on life in the DR. They universally agreed they were not going back to the U. S. I was surprised that we even ran into American women who decided to relocated to the DR. All in all it was a great trip that only furthered the strong affinity that I have for the DR.