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we've made a big mistake and we can't ignore it any longer now that we're back here in cabarete
which happens to be our favorite place we have to be honest with ourselves last year we traveled all
around the world trying to find another cabarete and well we kind of failed it took us going all
around the globe to realize this is the place for us this is our spot so this video today is really
going to be about comparing the pros and cons of traveling full time going around the world
versus staying in one place for a longer period so if you happen to be new around here my name is
Anna and Trevor is behind the camera we'll give you a little bit of background information so we
came here to cabarete basically 2 years ago and we spent eight or nine months here and totally
fell in love it became probably our favorite place on the planet but we did spend a great
deal of time here we are Travelers that is our job so we decided to go around the world or at
least travel like a lot more extensively and we ended up going fully around the world we went to
Europe we were in Greece and Italy then we went to Thailand Vietnam we were in Japan South Korea
and then back in the US and home to Canada again so we literally went around the world and our was
kind of to find places that we love as much as this place but we just didn't succeed so it's not
that we didn't enjoy those countries we just named off some really really amazing places right there
the thing is we didn't spend enough time in each of them we tried a month or or two in Greece that
was the closest we come but we realized that now that we're getting a little older we want to go
slower and we're looking for a home base that kind of checks every single box and cabarete does it
for us that's just it I'm being completely honest we were close in some of those other places but
there's just something about this place something about the Dr on the North Coast specifically that
just keeps calling us back someone's out here playing in the water it's so nice it is funny
when you do travel the world and you experience all these different oceans different Seas you
kind of forget how warm the Caribbean is this water never gets cold it's like bath water I know
you know it's funny this is one of the uh perfect swimming days in cabarete it is I know every time
we go to film it ends up being the perfect Beach day so you might be saying to yourselves like why
did you leave cabarete in the first place if you love it here so much well we are infected with
wanderlust like forever we will continue to travel around the world and visit new places and probably
visit some old places as well that we've been to before we will continue to travel but we kind of
want to make this our home base we're just going back to like that year of travel that we just
completed basically like we got stuck at home like like all of you guys during Co and then we
were here in one place basically for 8 or n months and then we just like had the opportunity to start
traveling again and we kind of got a little too excited we wanted to see everything at once we
wanted to make up for lost time and then we just ended up doing way too much stuff so in the future
yes absolutely we're going to spend a lot of time here and then in between here in Canada our home
or where we're from we will definitely do like slower more trips around the world but but just
not as many places at once the funny thing is when we were on that adventure around the world we kept
comparing everything to the hero everything was compared to cap on purpose no we just naturally
found ourselves in conversations about oh we kind of missed this about cabarete oh kosam mui
is almost perfect but it's just missing this one thing and that was distance it's just really far
across the world but we just kept going into that huh yeah and one thing we definitely did not find
anywhere and I'm curious if it exists really anywhere in the world but the way the uh all
the restaurants here that you can kind of see behind us are set up right on the beach there's
like probably 20 restaurants that you can sit at a table put your feet in the sand and just sit on
the beach and there's some places that have a like maybe a couple of tables like that but there's not
really a beach like this that we found anywhere this is hard to find and you guys can see I'm
moving the camera here these are all restaurants and there's like a like a kilometer of them and
then if you go further there's more so yeah it's a really special special place we just love that
the tables are right in the sand right in the sand well this should uh give you a better idea how the
restaurants are set up here so we're just right off the beach you have tables in the sand and
there's like this big walkway of so many different restaurants they're all pretty good too they are
most of them I would say are pretty good you have to come here and try the different ones out I feel
like everyone has a different opinion on all the places here but one thing we can probably
all agree on as great it is as it is to put your feet in the sand most of the better restaurants
are off Beach So speaking of places off the beach we have come to a little restaurant called f King
it's a little Vietnamese place we have a lemonade I also have my fan here cuz a little hot in this
Alleyway there's not much of a breeze I highly recommend even if you look weird carry one in
your purse you don't look weird it looks natural doesn't it look very Posh yeah all right now I
got the fan how do I look with it it's cooling me off that's all that matters but you guys probably
know a big part of travel for us is the food I bet it's a big part of travel for all of you as well
one of the things about cabarete is the food's really good we're about to get some Vietnamese
food and we're actually surprised we've been here before once and we couldn't believe how close it
is to food in Vietnam and well you're about to see it so we each got the Bon Me lunch special
they have this everyday at lunchtime of course has a bon me it has a little bit of a soup there and
the lemonade as well Bon me if you've never had one before it's basically a Vietnamese sandwich
so you have a French baguette and then inside this time we have chicken she has a chicken or veggie
option here and I think there's some like carrots cilantro there probably some yummy sauce on there
sometimes there's some red chilies in there so be prepared for that enough talking let's actually
try it you guys probably noticed that it's a little loud on the street this is probably maybe
my favorite sandwich here in cabarete I love the bread the bread is absolutely perfect it's soft
but like chewy at the same time so you can kind of have to like pull it apart but it's so perfect
and chicken a little bit spicy some really nice flavors going on I don't even know what kind of
sauce she's putting in there but it's so good and you get a little bit of like crunch from those
veggies this thing is absolutely unreal you guys I can't get enough of it if you're in Cabaret you
have to come and try this I promise it's very close if not exactly like the real Vietnamese
Bon me now let's talk more about living in a place for a while one of our favorite parts
we get to find our favorite restaurants and keep coming back remember remember we're not here for
one week coming to two places he we're not even here for a month we are here for many many months
we basically live here now at least for like 8 months a year so we find our favorite restaurants
we find our favorite beaches and we love it what we found last time when we went around the world
is 1 month wasn't quite long enough and I know some of you might be like come on it is but just
as we're getting into like the end of week three and into week four we're finally starting to find
our favorite restaurants we're finding our people that we want to hang out with we're find find in
our local hot spots so it's never quite a month and that's on us that's why we made the mistake
we should have stayed longer in some of those places that's why we're back here to stay for
a very long time all right we're back out in the uh wild streets of cabarete huh yeah if there's
anything we know about this Main Street here it can get a little bit loud and then I have to yell
a little bit more than normal I usually don't have that loud of a voice so I have to really bring
it up the cars and the motorbikes here are really really loud but what we want wanted to talk about
just why we're on our way to our next location is our group trip you guys probably know by now one
sec motorbike okay group trip that we are doing a group trip to Greece in September 2024 Greece
is our other favorite place other than this it's like our I don't know if I want to say our second
favorite place we love Greece we love it here there are two favorite places a goal of ours
is to definitely do some group like lots of group trips coming up in the future we'd love to do one
or at least one or two a year but the big thing on that on that is that the first one really has
to be a success in order for us to do more so you guys are remotely interested in coming with
us to greets it's going to be the cre just uh we will have a link down in the description but also
feel free to reach out send us an email send us a DM if you have any questions it's next September
2024 and we might be able to get people a little bit of a discount if they reach out yes so again
if you're remotely interested if you think it's in your budget and your timeline all of those
things uh if you have any questions just send us a message and maybe we can get get you a little
discount well we've come over to vunda which is one of our favorite coffee shops in town as you
can see it's very beautiful inside and it's probably the most trendy coffee shop you're
going to find on the whole North coast of the Dr got myself a cold brew here col leche with some
milk just to get a bit of a pickme up but you know what's funny this place this coffee shop
is one of the most asked questions when you guys reach out to us you're like where is this place I
have to come here it looks like somewhere in Bali or something like that the good news is
it's right in the center of town not only is it one of the most attractive coffee shops in town
also some of the best coffee I think Trevor said we got cold brew so good I got almond milk in mine
but let's go back to one of these mistakes that we made traveling full-time over the last year
one of the big things is that because we went to so many places and we were jumping around so much
we inevitably ended up spending a lot more money we've noticed here like just being here probably 2
months now in the Dominican Republic our already saved so much we're just not spending nearly as
much because we're just paying rent we're going out to eat here and there but that's really our
main expenses we haven't really traveled anywhere we haven't booked any flights and that stuff even
when you're doing it on a budget like we do like we are really really careful about not spending
tons on flights we travel on low budget carriers whatever lowc cost carriers all the time we don't
do expensive things but it somehow just adds up when every 2 weeks every month you're booking
that your traveling places you're taking buses you're taking trains it just gets really really
expensive even when you're trying not to spend that much money so really nice to be in a place
for a bunch of months and be able to save a little bit of money for once now because we do have a
base here in cabarete we are going to be traveling around the Dr some more don't worry we just spent
the last month or two here just kind of relaxing for once it actually feels really good to be in
one spot but we'll be going do some different locations some that we've been to before some
new ones now if you guys have any recommendations on where we should go first go back and check our
videos then tell us where we should go if we haven't been there yet it's going to be so
much fun we got some big plans and we have some friends coming as well more friends are going
to be here soon and I think some of you are going to recognize them we're now back at our apartment
and we promise to show you guys this place soon in the next video we will give you a full tour I know
we've been kind of teasing you you might be able to see inside there you saw the pool area already
but one thing we wanted to talk about one of the super Pros the ultra Pros cabarete for us is
the community the community is just it's like no other unless you spend time here it's hard to know
exactly what I mean everybody gets along there's a good mix of expats and there's also locals we
know expats and we know locals and we consider them all our friends it's what we love the most
some of the other things and you've heard us say this in videos but we absolutely how love how we
don't need a car here in Cabaret I mean sure if we want to go do an Excursion or drive to so Su yes
we could but we could take Local transportation but for us Cabaret is perfect because we can walk
absolutely everywhere and get anything we need and we don't need a car and that was one of the things
while we were traveling around the world it was hard to find it's really hard to find like a town
that has enough restaurants and enough amenities and grocery stores of course you got the people
you have a beach and we don't need that car we came very close in kosui we absolutely love that
Island in Thailand but it didn't quite it wasn't quite there for us we also came pretty close to
nexos in Greece and that was I'd say the closest we came to kind of the feeling and the vibe here
in cabarete but it is one of our favorite things we don't need to have a car we can get anything
we want and the people are absolutely amazing another major Pro here for us is that we are
literally like 30 minutes from the PTO Plata airport very convenient there but not just that
when we're traveling in say Europe or especially Asia to get home is such an ordeal so if there was
ever an emergency our parents are getting older you know we have lots of family so if we ever had
to get home like in a pinch from Asia it would take literally days especially to get everything
booked it would C probably cost like thousands of dollars here we know we can easily catch a flight
probably the next day we can fly to the us if we had to and get home from there it would only take
a matter of hours rather than days so we touched on a lot of subjects in this video but there's one
thing we want you guys to know for sure we're not done traveling or anything like that we're still
going to travel around around the world just this is home base now this is home and we'll travel in
between here and Canada we'll still hit up lots of places we'll check out new continents we'll
check out new countries but we are going to go a little slower while we're here in the Dr and
we know that we can't please everyone some of you love our cabarete videos and you just want
to watch these and you don't really watch us as we travel around the world and then for others of
you you're probably like I'd like to see you going to different places so we know that you know some
of you love this some of you love that and we'll continue to do all of it yeah we will it's funny
any other YouTuber that creates videos would know like the minute sometimes you go to a new country
like not everybody follows you there uh some countries like say the Philippines if you're
there the people that are in the Filipinos only want to watch Philippine videos so it's
an interesting to be a YouTube Creator so we're still going to try to do it all because we do
have the wonderand lust bug we are Travelers at the end of the day it's just we're getting a bit
older and we do want to go a little slower and it just took us a year of kind of bouncing around to
realize that realize how that is for us for sure now if you guys got this far in the video and
you're like who the heck are you guys rambling on it's Trevor and Anna you did really well but you
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think yeah oh my we spend a lot of time doing this but hey it's our thing it's a lot of it's a lot
of fun all right guys that's it from cabarete wishing you delightful travels see you soon
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