Well, my last two weeks have been amazing. The show got sell out crowds both weekends, which brought an amazing energy to everyone who was working.San Juan, Puerto Rico has a large venue so our largest crowd was around 9,000 people, which is pretty amazing. The building we put the show into in Santo Domingo was smaller, dirtier, and less accommodating in some departments, but we didn't have a single show with under 5,000 people in attendance for our 8 shows in 4 days.
In the short break between cities, I took off with some friends and we went to an all inclusive resort in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic and had a great time! I got in a couple hours of snorkeling, so I could watch fish and urchins. There were hundreds of sea urchins in and around all sorts of rock and coral formations. I also got to see a puffer fish, some spotted eels, a small spotted ray, some slippery dicks (the fish not the anatomy part), some blue tang, and some triggerfish from what I can remember off the top of my head.
After working extra hard to work with locals who only spoke spanish (I can't really speak it and can only mildly understand it when it is spoken to me), we got the show back into trucks in 6.5 hours and said our goodbyes over beer as everyone has two weeks to do whatever. I personally am in the middle of taking a couple days at an all inclusive in Bayharibe, Dominican Republic before going to my new home in Colorado where I will unpack boxes and buy a bed and settle in for about a week before going back on the road for 10 more weeks.
I used my new scuba certification to go one two scuba dives this morning and I will be going on two more tomorrow. I would have more pictures, but my underwater camera spring a leak or something and is out of service until I get back to the states and figure out how to file a warranty claim with Olympus. It certainly wasn't full of water, but there is now some corrosion on the battery contacts and the rear screen doesn't work.....oh well, it'll get sorted out. I hope everyone is doing well and I'll be back soon.
In the short break between cities, I took off with some friends and we went to an all inclusive resort in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic and had a great time! I got in a couple hours of snorkeling, so I could watch fish and urchins. There were hundreds of sea urchins in and around all sorts of rock and coral formations. I also got to see a puffer fish, some spotted eels, a small spotted ray, some slippery dicks (the fish not the anatomy part), some blue tang, and some triggerfish from what I can remember off the top of my head.
After working extra hard to work with locals who only spoke spanish (I can't really speak it and can only mildly understand it when it is spoken to me), we got the show back into trucks in 6.5 hours and said our goodbyes over beer as everyone has two weeks to do whatever. I personally am in the middle of taking a couple days at an all inclusive in Bayharibe, Dominican Republic before going to my new home in Colorado where I will unpack boxes and buy a bed and settle in for about a week before going back on the road for 10 more weeks.
I used my new scuba certification to go one two scuba dives this morning and I will be going on two more tomorrow. I would have more pictures, but my underwater camera spring a leak or something and is out of service until I get back to the states and figure out how to file a warranty claim with Olympus. It certainly wasn't full of water, but there is now some corrosion on the battery contacts and the rear screen doesn't work.....oh well, it'll get sorted out. I hope everyone is doing well and I'll be back soon.
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On another note, looks like you are living the good life sir! Hope you're having tons of fun.