Routine transit to Puerto Rico. Drive to SFO, Friday evening, two connecting flights, arrive in San Juan on Saturday at noon. Pick up the rental car and Tom and Kathy, and arrive at condo in Humacao a bit after dark. We are part of a huge condo/hotel settlement. A hold over from the time share heyday. Lots of condos all over, looks a bit like southern California the way it is built up with endless pink stucco buildings.
Next day, late start then a hike along the windward east facing beach. This must be the shore the hurricanes come in on. Very windy. Most hotels and condos are either empty, closed for the hottest, most humid part of the year, (hmm, some coincidence for our visit), or abandoned. Anyhow, very quite, and very little beach, well, actually NO beach. But a nice walk, not many people here.
Puerto Rico is part of the US…….well, sorta. Not a state, not sure what it is exactly. But they have the US Postal Service here, but everything is in Spanish. They use the US Dollar, but fuel is measured in liters, (cheaper here then in California now). Speed limits are in MPH, but distance on the road markers are in kilometers. Temperatures are in Fahrenheit.
After the beach walk, we drove into Farjardo to check out the transportation to islands of Culebra and Vieques later in the week. Finally, a quest for dinner. See below, a great find. Good food.
Maki with eel sauce!
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