Fruit & Dog Treats

Here's another Caribbean fruit that I've had once in Dominica (when I helped teach art classes at the Women's Center we were paid in fruit each week and one week it was these!), but I can't remember what they called them here.  Possibly cashew pear, like they call them in Guyana?

In Guyana, we bought a few of these from the market. The following day a friend of Frannie's brought over a huge bag filled with cashew pears.  We had so many the Frannie, Charlie, and I (and even Papaya) feasted on these fruits all week long!  Papaya loved them - they make perfect dog treats! 


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Island Life

It's hard to believe that in nearly two months, we'll be packing up to move back to the States and saying goodbye to island life.  As of August, we will have officially lived in the Caribbean for two years.  Crazy, huh?  New friends, did you know that we lived in the Bahamas for four months prior to our twenty month stint in Dominica?  

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I recently updated the Island Life section of the blog and added this fun map showing our island homes.  I also included some of my favorite/most informative Dominica posts, just in case you are wondering where in the world we live or are interested in learning more about life in Dominica.  Here's a small snippet of some of those favorites, just to get you started:

Apartment Tour  //  What we'll miss most when we leave  //  My favorite hike: 7 Waterfalls

I also just imported my blog posts from the blog I kept while we were in the Bahamas and had a good laugh revisiting some of my favorite old posts, like this one, titled Where does the devil live?, that describes a typical, hilarious day spent volunteering in a Grade 1 classroom at the local primary school.  Aren't these little friends precious?  I miss them!

Good times in the islands!

Oh my - living down in Dominica, I am really out of the loop... and I just realized that it's Memorial Day Weekend back in America.  Enjoy the long weekend and have so much fun! 

Dominica: a beautifully kept secret

It was pretty cool to discover an article on Dominica in yesterdays Lexington Herald-Leader:

The bright spot was my final destination: the beautiful island of Dominica. Not to be confused with the Dominican Republic, Dominica (pronounced Dom-i-nee-ka) lies between the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the southern Caribbean. Of the 103 countries I have visited, this is one of the most beautiful.  - Patti Nickell

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In five days, travel writer Patti Nickell explored a good portion of the island and went to many awesome spots, places that Charlie and I would definitely take visiting family and friends or recommend to visitors.  It was fun to read about our island home and some of our favorite places here.  The article also just gives a really nice overview of what Dominica is like and how beautiful it is.  You can check out the article in its entirety here.