Pining for the Fjords

Previous posts:  Day 1 , Day 2 , and Day 3 Tuesday, December 17 th was Mom’s actual birthday, and she wanted to celebrate by seeing Old Town San Juan.  Old Town is actually pretty small – only 7 square blocks in any direction – so it was completely walkable.  Additionally, our condo was smack dab in the center of all of it, so any time we wanted to, we could return home to rest, drop off random things we’d acquired, have a drink of water, more mofongo, and so on. In researching our trip, I ran across a series of walking tours on a blog from someone who lived in San Juan, and we started out following those.  In making our way from the condo to the starting point of the walking tour, we decided breakfast was in order, as was taking some pictures of the street scenes around us.  Old Town is a really gorgeous part of the island, evoking the colors of places like Charleston and a distinctly old world style feel. Who's ready to play Find the Gato? Jim and

Previous posts:  Day 1 and Day 2 On Monday, December 16 th , we woke up ready to head to the eastern part of Puerto Rico, specifically to El Yunque National Park, Puerto Rico ’s rainforest.  The drive there was about an hour, once we made it out of the greater San Juan area.  Here's a sample intersection: What the what?!?! Along the way, we decided to stop for gas at a Shell station and then for supplies at a nearby Walgreen’s.   While Jim was looking for heat wraps for his back and Chris was finding snacks, I busied myself with something far more important – randomly running across a small action figure of Harry Styles from the tween band One Direction and making it into an impromptu dashboard ornament for our rental car, Lady P. Leigh, helping Jim get all wrapped up Project time! Harry really is the dreamiest one. Look at that hair. With that taken care of, we proceeded east.  We found the road that heads up the mountain into El Yunqu