*Rain Forest Motto: It has just rained, is raining, or is going to rain. *The ‘Americanization’ (read fast food, Walmart, Kmart) is more prevalent that we expected. *English is spoken, mostly by younger PR Residents outside of the bigger cities and by a great number of people in the service industry. Speaking Spanish comes in very handy here. *Tourism seems
We had another lovely breakfast at Casa Cubuy with two other couples; Andrea and Jason from Ottowa, Katia and Don from Washington DC. We set out up the road deeper into the rain forest and got a short distance before it started to rain. We happened to be at the new gazebo site when the rain started so we took
We had a lovely breakfast at Casa Cubuy, the EcoLodge in the rain forest, El Yunque, of fresh fruit, scrambled eggs and dsome sort of potatoes. I especially enjoyed the fruit. After the morning rain shower Daniel and I set off on a hike. There’s a guy here, Rex, who suggested a hike over on river, to another, then to
We left the beach after breakfast and headed towards Fajardo, just to check it out. We found our way to the place the ferries leave for the islands of Viegas and Culebra. We had recommendations for both. Maybe next time we go back we’ll venture out there. We carried on towards the rain forest, stopping in a small downtown. We
While we waited for the rain to pass, we did laundry at the laundromat. The place is small, washers crammed in together quite tightly. We did two loads and the ladies in the place helped ‘direct traffic’ sort of keeping track of who came in when and what washers were soon to finish their loads. The wash and rain finished
Morning rain came through and we went to the Blue Flag Beach … and then more rain came through. We waited under cover and, when it quit, we went into the water. The water was quite calm, drastically different that the beach not a mile away in front of our hotel. It’s lined with palm trees, has fine sand, and
Without a hitch we left Old San Juan and headed east to Luquillo, a small town right on the ocean. The Luquillo Sunrise Beach Inn is right on the beach … just a small street between the building and the sand. Today, the waves were crashing on the shore and we went to ride the waves. I always forget how
After a continental breakfast at the hotel, we headed to the hat shop. Daniel had his eye on a white porkpie hat with a black band. He looks great in it and he wore it all day. Fort San Cristobal was our next stop. Its a huge fort build in 1634 – or at least construction began in 1634. It
On our first full day in San Juan we set out to see El Morro, the fortress at the tip of the peninsula that protected San Juan for hundreds of years. As we were walking up to the ‘front door’ it started to rain … and rain hard. A storm came off the ocean without much warming. By the time