Altos de Chavon (for Cantdog & interested pornsters)

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Thanks to our favorite athiest Baptist missionary pornster, I knew just a bit more than the tourist brochures tell about this corner of the Dominican Republic. Sorry, Cdog, I wasn't handling the camera so I have no pictures to share of La Romana. I did pick up a factoid you might not have heard: the little beach and palm grove on the river below Altos de Chavon starred as Vietnam/Cambodia in "Apocalypse Now."
 
That's beautiful!

Reminds me, somehow, of Santa Barbara...maybe it's the Spanish influence.
 
I know what you're waiting for, Min. You're waiting for the picture of my coworker and fellow traveler fondling the horn on the bronze rhinocerous. I can't show you that. It would be pornographic. I also can't show you the "orgy bed," as we called it, in the house that we were able to tour because we bribed the caretaker. Its owner might be a lurker and we might get the caretaker fired. What a fabulous house for an orgy. Or so someone suggested. (People's minds are in the gutter! It's disgusting.)
 
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I know what you're waiting for, Min. You're waiting for the picture of my coworker and fellow traveler fondling the horn on the bronze rhinocerous. I can't show you that. It would be pornographic. I also can't show you the "orgy bed," as we called it, in the house that we were able to tour because we bribed the caretaker. Its owner might be a lurker and we might get the caretaker fired. What a fabulous house for an orgy. Or so someone suggested. (People's minds are in the gutter! It's disgusting.)

:eek:
 
A cautionary tale for obscenely rich people with vacation homes designed by soon-to-be-famous architects: your caretaker should be better paid. He or she can easily be bribed to let curious strangers tour your home. Gorgeous place, by the way. What I woudn't give to have that verandah and that day bed for 24 hours, with a limited guest list. The wall that separates the verandah from the house is a waterfall. (But you know that, of course, since it's your house, obscenely rich person.) A river runs through your living room, fed by the waterfall beside the front door, and it exits the house across the verandah, passing beside the day bed and under a little bridge, and pours into the swimming pool, which has islands of broken columns. The daybed, which my coworkers and partners in bribery dubbed "the orgy bed," is woven of water hyacinth and is strewn with white linen cushions and is big enough for a dozen people, but perfect for two. I'd like to be there on a day when a storm is approaching - not a hurricane, thank you, but a storm with distant lightning over the water, and a warm wind that would set the ceiling fans spinning. The caretaker, of whom I am cautious because I know how cheaply he or she can be bought, will serve our drinks in pineapple halves. Or coconuts. I'll have time to decide while the storm approaches. When it gets too close, and it begins to seem that the lightning is more dangerous than entertaining, we'll push a button and glass walls will slide into place, where before there were only curtains of transparent linen gauze.

Nice house!

Thank you for the tour.

Best regards,

shereads
 
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I had seen Altos only at night. By moonlight its aspect changes subtly, and in the relative dark one is relatively invisible. Small walkpaths looking down at the Chavon are utterly private then.

The buildings are spacier, too. The daylight photos show you the solidity and the whimsical artfulness,crusted over with the fish, the columns, the dolphins requested by the patron. But real artisans built them. A beautiful place built for a base use.

Thanks, shereads.

cantdog
 
PS If you have a little income and a small nest egg, and a desire to exploit people, your retirement fund will go a lot further on that island, and there is no occupation by thugs with weapons on the Rep. Dominicana side of the island.

cantdog
 
I want thugs with weapons to guard my property.

We went back to Altos at night, per your recommendation. There was a full moon. Infinitely more romantic at night.

The banks of the river below are floodlit, like a movie set.
 
No, Cdog, thank you. The trip to La Romana wouldn't have happened if I hadn't been inspired by the Tales of an Atheist Missionary. Altos de Chavon was beautiful, but La Romana gave me my first clue that I was in another country. Although it was too late to spend more than a couple of hours exploring before we had to leave for the airport, our guide got a kick out of showing us around and my co-worker from Cuba particularly loved it. Thank you for the work you do there, and for sharing your stories.
 
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