so as you guys know today is the day we are heading to las terranes we're up here at the
north coast of the dominican republic and i feel like we're literally driving through
a jungle right now but the question is are we even going to make it to where we are going
we had quite the time even getting a car we're in one now we're gonna fill you in on the
whole story but the car we're in our engine light is on and uh i'm pretty sure our thermostat
light is on as well warning us that the car could get hot i asked about it and they just
said you know that's that's normal down here so i'll just call it a feature for now but
let anna fill you in on what happened yesterday so if you happen to be new around here my
name is anna and trevor is driving the car we are the delightful travelers i've been
here in dominican republic for a few months this is our second road trip driving here
can be a little bit scary and in general i don't love filming in the car because it ends
up being bumpy and i try not to be too distracted so i can help trevor you know look for speed
bumps and stuff like that there's a speed bump happening right right now anyway i'm
going to start with our story last 24 hours has let's just say not been so fun but i'm
going to start at the beginning um when we came to the dominican republic we rented one
apartment for a couple of months and then we had a week in between our second apartment
rental which happens in another week from now i really figured since everyone was telling
us we have to go to los terrenas this is the perfect time to do it
so over some speed bumps hopefully there's not too many more up in the future so i can
keep talking uh basically somebody that watches us a subscriber said and sent us a message
said we have a villa in the hills above lost uranus and we'd love for you guys to stay
there which is such an amazing offer but it is on a hill and a little hard to get to and
you will need a 4x4 vehicle so this was like a month ago we contacted a few rental places
and one person was like yep got one for you we paid a deposit we thought everything's
perfect the last week or so we reminded him we need a four by four it has to be a four
before yep no problem at all anyway he shows up yesterday morning when we were originally
supposed to leave and it's not a full ride so it was an suv however it wasn't a four
by four so we were very disappointed right away we actually sent the car back because
we didn't like we were specifically told we needed a 4x4 to get where we were going so
we were like no that's just not going to work and then we thought we could just call around
and of course get a 4x4 somewhere else but boy were we wrong we went down a rabbit hole
here around renting cars in the dominican republic so first we found another rental
place just down the road from us we walked down there we said do you have any four by
fours and he immediately said no i don't have anything but he showed us what he did have
and we noticed one of them said four wheel drive right on the back of it and we're like
that's a four by four oh he's like oh yeah i guess i guess it is and we said is it available
is available for the next five days oh yes yes it is and then it ended up being that
yes it was available but there was only one type of insurance there was a 2500 usd uh
what do you call that a deductible and that's just not good like that's terrible insurance
we said can we upgrade the insurance there was not an option so basically we had to walk
away we contacted another place that's really well known for being probably the best place
to rent a car from in the region uh first we called them they said they'd call us back
they didn't call us back we called them a couple of times finally we reached someone
and she said yes i have a 4x4 send us a message on whatsapp and we'll get everything going
send her a message on what's up first she said no we don't sorry we don't have a four
before then she said we have an suv that's available and then she said wait we have nothing
and then she said we have a small car and it was just like all over the place finally
they it ended up they didn't have anything that we could rent so basically we went back
to the original guy and he got us the car that we are in now it showed up this morning
and the engine light is on as trevor said all right to sum things up we're on our way
to las terranes it's a three-hour drive we have this little tiny car we just pulled over
on the side of the road thing is when we get to las terranes we don't know if this car
is going to get us to the villa if we don't get to the villa guess what happens we don't
have a place to stay that's right we don't have a place to stay so we might have to book
an accommodation there but holy moly look where we're at we had to pull over on the
side of the road here oh my wow the last few minutes of the drive have been absolutely
gorgeous i don't know if we've managed to capture it but there were like palm trees
on the other side and this beautiful coast that we pulled over wow this is stunning it
says we're in uh nagawa nagwa there's like a swing here so i think we're gonna quickly
scarf down some lunch then hope our car will start back up and then we will make our way
into place or two lost aranas and we'll pick you up maybe on the hill on the way up there
or at least in the town in the town yeah all right we have made it we thought it would
be good idea for us to go in the grocery store you can probably see it behind us so we need
to get some groceries to get to our villa but there's one thing that happened that we
did not want to happen it rained and that is what we didn't want to happen because it's
going to be even harder to get up the hill in this car honestly we don't know if we're
going to be able to get up the hill so stay tuned to find out in the meantime do you want
to come in the grocery store
so you guys are always asking us about if you need a mask to go in a grocery store you
do we have them on to be safe also proof of vaccination wasn't asked for here but we have
had a test in other places in the past now we're just looking for some snacky foods yeah
let's see uh cheese is good
it's a little uh tiny little beer storage section uh some presidente lights yeah i give
these to you the last thing we are on the hunt for is tomato sauce and i found that
let's see if we can actually find it so the reason we're getting all this stuff of course
because we're hopefully staying at a villa which is just outside town so we figured we'd
cook tonight so we don't have to come back in hopefully we can get up there
so our place is about a 10 minute drive from where we just were and we're starting to get
deeper into the jungle here the road is paved but we'll see how it goes first we have to
find the driveway that we don't know we can get up
all right what do you think can we do it uh it looks pretty slippery there's also a gate
up there and it's half open so i'm not sure what to do just yet but someone's supposed
to come maybe open that but we'll see in just a minute so the road that trevor was looking
at was not the right one we actually need to go to the left we're doing it now it's
very steep and should i go fast a lot of people are rapido rapido no i think more small more
small okay no it's not happening not happening guys it's not happening at all i'm already
stuck so we're not going to this village there's not a chance well this is a complete 100 fail
this is a bad idea we had a good we had a good feeling that this was not going to work
but we thought we'd go for it because the place looks amazing and here we are so now
we're going to have to bail on everything we just did and go find somewhere to stay
so i'm sorry if the last few scenes absolutely made no sense it was super chaotic we were
trying to back out of this random crazy hill uh after deciding there's no way that we could
possibly get up it and then we drove around a little bit we parked we kind of collected
our thoughts hopefully we're a little bit calmer right now decided we have to find another
place to stay i've gone on airbnb i messaged a host uh she said her place is available
and i'm about to book it this is as fast as fast as we've ever decided on something in
airbnb so quickly so hopefully everything's fine i kind of just really glanced at it so
um confirm and pay let's do this let's hope i didn't screw anything up all right looks
like we're going to be staying at the alasai hotel we're literally in the parking lot booking
this place but it's right on the beach we didn't know what to do we honestly scrambled
a little bit but it looks like a nice place this is the area that everyone has told us
to come to specifically in las terranes so here we are what a day huh not everything
is always perfect this day definitely did not go as planned we just checked into our
place come in and see it not too bad for like a very very last-minute decision literally
or almost literally had no idea what we were booking so we have an entire apartment look
at this so it's quite big again the pitchers i don't think did it justice we weren't sure
what we were going to get but there's a very big like kitchen counter there yeah there
is a fridge water and the best part is of course this is the first place you're going
to go yeah outside really really big patio screen doors i always appreciate that especially
because there's tends to be a lot of mosquitoes around so then we have a uh little sofa couch
there yeah a table here and they also have a hammock i appreciate that do you guys see
the pool over there over there yeah i think the selling point was the pool for us again
no idea what we were going to do last minute so we went for this but this looks very nice
it's not too busy and it's right on the beach that's the biggest selling point right on
the beach we'll try to show you a sneak peek of that soon back inside and if we go this
way we have our bathroom over here toilet and everything over here sink and then right
behind trevor is a nice walk-in shower rainfall shower head over there fancy and last but
not least we have a bedroom here big king-sized bed nice and roomy the tv behind trevor's
head right now we probably won't even use that no plastic closet space not too bad it's
not the villa that we expected to go to with our private pool with a beautiful view maybe
maybe we'll get back there another time with a better vehicle but slightly disappointed
but at least we're here just cracked a beer achievement unlocked i think it's safe to
say we earned this because we left it took three hours of driving about an hour just
to find the place get groceries try to get up the hill then another hour or so to book
this so it's not a typical trip we don't even know what time it is right now yeah it's like
4 30 and we left it what 11 is yeah i i thought in my head by three o'clock we should be chilled
by our private pool but that's not happening trying to stay positive i mean i guess good
thing about where we are right now we're right on the beach yeah hopefully show you in a
bit we're very close to town too so now we can walk everywhere yeah we will take you
down for a sneak peek like i said and this is our first time here first impressions of
las terranes this is the place that all you guys have told us about and we're well we're
not off to the best start just because we couldn't get to our original accommodations
but just by driving through the town especially down here on the beach wait do you guys see
where we are there's going to be more videos coming up but we'll show you this well in
just a few moments
well this makes it all worth it doesn't it it's about 5 30 6 o'clock the sun's going
down you can see the sun rays through the coconut trees and this beach is super calm
we knew this coming in here we knew it was going to be absolutely beautiful so now i
almost feel like that whole incident the whole day the travel day fail day didn't happen
i mean i'm a little burnt out i'm not gonna lie but there's so much to see here in this
area and over the next few videos we're gonna be showing you guys so so much we just spotted
this very cute little beach bar which is like the perfect spot to grab a cocktail watch
the sunset relax and unwind and i think if there's any indication of things to come we're
really going to like it so we are going to go up there and have a drink and i think just
uh we'll leave you guys here it's been quite the day this was a i'm sure a very different
video than the norm but we we thought we would just pick up the camera uh and film it it
was kind of last minute we decided we did yeah we realized things were not going as
according to plan and we're like let's grab the camera and actually document what's happening
right now and i guess the moral of the story is when you're traveling when you're going
different places things just don't always go as planned and you just kind of have to
roll with the punches yeah i mean hopefully it's a good way to show you guys like we get
asked a lot like do we have bad travel days of course we do but you know we tried to show
the highlights like most people do on social media so we love that's our favorite things
to show as well but thankfully most of the time everything is a highlight yes thankfully
so we're excited to be here las terranus has been the most recommended location for us
to come to in the dominican room yeah so obviously in the next video we're going to be exploring
here we'll go into town maybe walk the beach we haven't even really made a plan yet we
have no we have no plan we're very unprepared but we're kind of we like that sometimes it's
fun to show up and not know a whole lot about an area yeah not even know where you're staying
like we booked our place literally in the parking lot we literally hooked it in anyway
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