Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico trip notes


Friday the 13th…

…this is a COMPLETELY FULL FLIGHT folks. Anyone want to check their bags first free?

They need some other incentive besides “you’ll get to wait at baggage claim at your destination! How about a free upgrade or something?

They need some other incentive besides “you’ll get to wait at baggage claim at your destination! How about a free upgrade or something?

The classic “somehow the person behind me needs to mess with the seat pocket and tray every five minutes. Ohhh…need my chips again. Now I need my bag from under the seat again. “

…two professional women having the proverbial nonstop conversation the whole flight.

completing, hopefully, the car rental agreement from my seat. Including uploading insurance and driver’s license photos.

Priceless rental csr

get and bet

stop for Pastellios

house

shopping

house

pasta

showers

gunfire at night?

Saturday the 14th

Find the beach path. Morning Beach walk, beach glass, girls telling their mother there are people on the beach.

Drive to El Yunque foreest

Winding roads, Bronco almost stalls out, recovers.

La coca falls

yokahu tower - no lighthouse at gift shop

la Mina falls

  • bonus hike
  • kate went swimming

bańo

  • Note: look up history of blocked pipes
  • sarii photo
  • fart plant
  • Pee, someone popping in there of coutse
  • lady asking directions


mt Britton tower trail

  • no parking
  • Try access road
  • WWLD - keep going
  • found glasses, lost glasses
  • lots of people at top

hike down

la parilla restaurant at Kioskas in Paraiso

  • pińa colada
  • Pork tenderloins
  • beachvwalk
  • people flying kites,
  • snake scark - he must be cold!
  • engagement / wedding


swimming, bevies, cards, popcorn, sleep

art exhibit of Nico - feeling of relaxation and of living inside someone else’s happy place. Like being on the womb. Safe and happy.

Drive to old San juan

caffe latte, no towels (seeing a pattern here)

art gallery - shopkeeper lived in New Haven and rattled off all the pizza places

Lunch at hotel place, bounce, go back to Mexican restaurant for tacos calles. People behind us looking at us as we bounce like “what are they doing?”

Nico exhibit.

fort.

gelato.

Sunday the 15th

Monday the 16th

Try for ferry

miss by 15 minutes.

Go to marina to try to find excursion. nothing.

Keep going north. Find a water taxi to Icaco! buy lunch supplies. Drinks, ice.

go to Icaco.

beach day. Walk. Find sea glass. Sandwiches and Sangria.

Lester helping jet ski impeller stuck with rope and plastic.

deliver ice to boats. Make friends. They give us ice, beer, meatball sandwiches, and ribs. “Andre” talks to us about metal music, Puerto Rico.

Water taxi back. GPS takes us in circles because the park is closed.

Go to “big marina” for dinner. Walk around marina.

Drive back. Stop at Econo for more Ginger Coconut drink. Can’t find it.

Go to original one. But it.

back to house for G & Ts.

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