#1: The Dominican Republic.
In search of Cipangu and a western route to Asia for the Spanish crown, Espanola was among the first strange islands where Christopher Columbus made landfall in 1492. Many Europeans believed at the time that Eden itself laid in the far eastern reaches of the Earth, and to get there one could sail west. Columbus was […]
The Bucket List Project
What is “The Bucket List” Project?Over the course of the next several months. I’ll be posting a short story about several countries. They are all places I’ve been, some for just a short time, and longer for others. I’ll be listing them in chronological order of when I went, spanning over the last decade or […]
