[Hillbilly]

Good morning people.

After all the good advice given on this board about traveling to Punta Cana and that area, I talked to my friend in La Romana and they agreed that a drive Santiago-PJU-Santiago was a bit too much in one day. Shoot, I could drive from NYC to Indianapolis in that time!!

So, I got to La Romana las night, watched the Toros beat the Escogido Leones in a nice game, and sacked out.

Up a dawn, we had coffee and good talk, and planned the weekend, cause he and his family will head up to Santiago for a " comelonga" at our place, previous to the golf tournament on Sunday. An impressive number of people will be coming for the tournament and we had to turn away some good folks.

Anyway, to the point.

Following rubio_higuey's and Dolores' posts, which I sopied and saved and printed out (but forgot to bring) I followed the broad outlines:

At the RR crossing (there is a colmado/parada right at the corner) you take a right and follow your nose. The road crossed the RR tracks three times at least. I found one of Dolores' guidline very helpful. She said look for EC 450, this is an "Estacion de CA~na" (stupid keyboard!!) on your left.

NOW FOR MY NEW AID TO TRAVELERS:
Follow the cane loading station up to EC-457. THEN, the road almost ends, although you can see another one in the distance, and you really HAVE to turn left across the tracks. One fairly short bloc and you go right again, all the way to the highway to PC> Turn right for Punta CAna, Left for Otra BAnda.

Now, I came in a medium sized Toyota SUV, worried about the hazards of the road: NOT!!

If you do not drive a low-slung sports car, you can travel this road. Central Romana has a grader working on leveling the roadway, I suppose because they know that the bridge is out and the road will be getting heavy use these days.
You will not want to sue the gas pedal too much. The road is uneven, and towards the end there are some muc puddles, but nothing AZB'x Toyota Corolla souldn't handle....

There are NO secret turns or anything else. The first crossing of the railroad might be the most tricky, but you just want to be on the other side of the tracks from the cane loader (EC-449)...

From the Hillbilly esconsed on La Marina at Cap CAna....

HB