What an amazing city this is. After having spent 3 full days here, the first 2 of which, we didn’t even know we were supposed to bump our clocks ahead one hour, (shows how important time is) I can now say, I’m a fan of Puerto Rico! When I was little my parents would take Sverre and I, along with about 10 high school students here to Puerto Rico to bike around the island. The last trip we did here was in the early 1990’s, and although I was young and we never spent much time in San Juan, I still remember it being hot, and having lots of beautiful beaches. The same holds true to this day!

Today activities consisited of John and I going to play tennis, which after I think about an hour we were both ready to pass out from good old heat exhaustion! So instead of going and sitting in the shade and drinking water, John ran to one shop in order to get oil and filters and I ran to another to get new alternator belts. No wonder we don’t know that we entered a new time zone upon arrival in Puerto Rico! Meanwhile Steve checked out the beaches and Hilton Resort.

So far I have managed to get down to Old San Juan with it’s narrow cobblestone streets, old stone forts, interesting little shops, and while I was there, 3 large cruise ships with tons of touristas. I also made it to the downtown city area which, is acutally cleaner then you might think, and lasltly to an area with great waves and some beaches. The rest of the time here we have been cleaning, getting different parts for the boat, and just relaxing a bit while we wait for some good weather to go the 80 miles to St. John and the BVI. Hard to beleive this part of the journey is coming to an end, but we are certainly looking forward to the next adventure and being based out of the USVI and BVI! Hope this finds everyone doing well and staying warm, for those of you up north.