Today we took a trip into Samana City with s/v Blackbird ( Lyle Jocelyn Micah And Jayce). I hope I spelled the names correctly! We called up the ole van taxi and headed over the hills and through the streets to the city. The city is filled with open storefronts streetside vendors and motorcycles everywhere. The van driver let us off at a restaurant that served really good food. Usually it’s their family or friends that own the places they take you too. The menu was in Espanol so Lyle informed us that our Google app has a little camera to the right side of it and you can take a picture and hit translate and BOOM no problem reading the Spanish menu! Thanks Lyle! The view over the bay was awesome, as we sat and watched the boats picking out the one that belonged to the guys we met at the Samana marina restaurant the day before. After that we walked around town and found Micah a playground! We sat and watched the people around us and took in the activities going on. We could hear loud noises and cheers close to us. It was probably a campaign rally! For real, they drive around with big speakers in their trucks loudly proclaiming their candidate of choice! As we walked along the scene changed from one of partly closed stores to what looked like a tourist area. Gift stores, pharmacy and tours. We walked to the SAMANA town sign and called for our taxi to come pick us up. What a cool day it was. The dog at the city sign wanted to go with us😢.