Tag: Highway

By Stephen Deal With three traveling companions, we were nearing the end of a long drive from Santo Domingo (the capital of the Dominican Republic) to Dajabon on the Dominican border with Haiti. Our trip had been marked by delays: the morning rush-hour traffic as we left Santo Domingo, a major traffic tie-up at a toll booth where the electronic payment system was down, a herd of cows blocking the highway. We thought the worst was behind us when we rounded a curve and came upon the scene of a recent truck accident. A large crane was just beginning to…