Leave the Country

The beginning of 2020 started out pretty decent. No Covid yet, a trip to the Dominican Republic, experiencing going through customs (that was very anticlimactic lol). I practices quite a bit of Spanish in the Dominican and was happy to get some pointers and do pretty decent as well. 

Leaving the country brought quite a few new experiences. I’m sure you will be able to review them as I get them all posted. 

Things certainly work differently in different countries. Granted – I’ve not been to a plethora of countries to compare it to anything. On arrival to the DR, we exited the plane on stairs. Walk down, jump on a bus that takes you to customs. (If you can call it that)

At Customs, you go through a line, they stamp your passport, and off you go. Its possible there were a couple questions, but I don’t recall anything standing out that made any of it very secure. Some people got checked, other people got waved through.

It was a bit different coming back. Landing in the US, we go through customs, run all over the back side of the airport (at least that’s what it felt like). Stand in line with a bunch of people coming into the country from all over. I particularly loved how closely everyone seemed to get packed in line. Coughing all over everyone. This annoyed me already – before Covid.

Some people had to go in one type of line, and others were shuffled over to another line. Slightly disconcerting when you are traveling with someone and aren’t used to airport anything. 

Clearly – I made it just fine. ☺

I can also mark off eating airplane food. I don’t recommend it.  It wasn’t horrible. But I can’t imagine its all that healthy.  Okay….. Do it once! – Get it off your bucket list of something you didn’t realize was on your bucket list.  Then… don’t do it again!