Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Last night I went to bed at 11pm, got up once during the night, finally waking at 6am with a headache and getting up with Teresa at 8am. I took half an Excedrin and fortunately it kicked in a few minutes later.

Today I our last full day in Barcelo Bavaro Palace, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

The blister on my big toe is now a callous 😊and my cold seems to be much better this morning.

We left the apt by 9am, picked up clean towels and claimed our spots on the beach.

We went into Miramar and had their breakfast buffet.

We moved back to the beach and as usual I tried to stay in the shade. At one point there was a downpour that cleared the beach but everything was back to normal five minutes later.

I spent a few minutes in the gym completing my usual dumbbell routine.

We left at 1:30 and had lunch in Miramar. Teresa returned to the beach and I returned to our room where I quickly completed COPA’s check-in. I also downloaded the boarding passes to a .pdf file that I sent to myself as an email attachment. Supposedly, that’s all I need to show in the airport. I checked my notes from last Wednesday and I see the airport rep took a photo of the QR code for our DR e-ticket from Teresa’s cellphone. Showing that on request should satisfy our DR exit requirement.

I returned to the beach by 4pm and we finished the last hour before returning to our room.

Just before 8pm we stopped in Strikers sports bar but they didn’t have the beef ribs and Teresa didn’t see whatever fixings she wanted to make a salad. We continued on to Miramar for their buffet.

We stopped at the theater which will be performing Circus again at 10pm but they had some Jewish thing going on that was so loud I couldn’t even stay to find out what it was. We returned to the apt.

I was sitting on the toilet when the phone rang. ☹ I answered and a woman asked how we’re enjoying our vacation. I asked her why they have a telephone next to the toilet in the bathroom. She laughed, apologized and said she’ll call back another time.

I finished reading Lee Child’s No Plan B (Jack Reacher #27). I have to admit it’s getting difficult to keep track of characters and plot points in my books. If that’s difficult for me at my age, imagine if I was president of the United States.

The plan for tomorrow, according to Teresa: hit the beach early, have breakfast and return to the room by 11am for final showers and packing so we can check-out by noon.

I read some from my book and I was in bed by 10:30.

 

RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW!

 

FUNNY