Bike Ride

Deb, Cheryl, Victoria and Raymond

`Friday was a great day.  I've been riding the motorcycle more and more on my own, and really feeling comfortable with it.  I thought it was time for a long ride, but Matt wasn't at all interested.  But I found my biker buddy!  Jim from Minnesota wanted to rent a bike for a day so he and I made plans to ride our bikes to Playa Magante, a sweet little beach about 45 minutes from our condo.  There are a couple of restaurants on the beach and some cabanas for those who want to stay for a few days.  Christina, Jim's girlfriend, had no interest in riding with Jim so she and Matt were following in their rental car.  We invited Raymond and Victoria to join us.  Cheryl, Jim, Deb and Richard came along as well in their car.

We had a great ride!  It was beautiful and the road is beautiful, with the ocean on one side and the mountains on the other.  The one large town we went through was Gaspar Hernandez and I was a bit nervous about that, but no problem.  There was some type of parade or demonstration going on, but we were able to get through with no problem.  We did run into a Dominican traffic jam.....about 20 cows being herded down the road but farmers had friends waving flags before we came upon them and we just wove our away around the cows. Another time we came upon a slow moving pick up, with their milk cow trotting behind the back of the truck.

Playa Magante

Palapa Tables at Los Gringos

Playa Magante was a beautiful as remembered.  We spent a nice lazy day on the beach.  It's a very clam beach so good for swimming, but the water is just a little murky so not good for snorkeling.  It is a great shelling beach.

We  had a great lunch at Los Gringos.  They have very cool little beach side palapa tables.

The guys swimming..

We left about 4:00 so we could get home well before dark.  Another great ride home, and then I was done for the day!  Very tired after all this fun!