Aloha from Hispaniola!

Our Caribbean odyssey began quite unexpectedly completely out of the blue in June. Brian, an acquaintance from my days spent on the Trop Rock circuit contacted me with a proposal to manage and program an FM radio station in the north coast town of Sosúa on the Island of Hispañola in the Dominican Republic. Melinda and I had been planning to make a move to Arizona or San Marcos, Mexico where we intended to work on photojournalistic blogs, travelogues, and lifestyle articles. I also had musician friends in both places and figured I would occasionally join them for some gigs to supplement our income. We were leaning toward Arizona because I had loved living there in the past and we love the state. Then again - the call of the sea and tropics was very strong - and the thought of living abroad had an extra appeal as America had become an unrecognizable madhouse brimming with highly divided quarrelsome bickering people and blatantly open racial tensions that recalled the pre-Civil Rights