Real Human Moments

Recently I took a trip with some friends to the island of Puerto Rico. This was my first adventure after graduating college. It was quite a relaxing, and fun time. The other adventurers were my neighbor from fairfield Leslie, her friend Heather and her cousin Matt.We began the trip early morning, arriving at the Westchester airport for a 6 am flight. Being that early I noticed this sign which is kind of funny when taken out of context. Get it, there are two doors A and B, but they mis-spelled “Two” as “To”…. or maye not.

This vacation was truely relaxing, although it is a big island my mind turned to Island mode immediatley. I didn’t have anything to worry about, not work, not a girl, not a paper I should have been working on, nothing. We stayed at a non-tourist condo complex called “Playa Azul II”, which was right on the beach and had an amazing view. We were on the 13th floor, each condo has a small deck/porch area which proved to be a wonder place to pull up a chair and read, or smoke a fine cigar. The mornings were quite rough though, the sun made sure to inform you around 8 or 9 that it did not want you sleeping any more.

The beach had a darker (than CT) fine grain sand, and the water was Azul (blue) just like the name claims. It was so soothing to lay out on the relativly empty beach and drink a Medalla (PR beer). We met some interesting people there; I met some Americans from Oregon, a retired advertising excecutive who helped us order our food and called us “Anglos”, even some college students from UPR.

Puerto Rico is America, its no different than say Bridgeport or Hartford, except the amazing beaches. Being as we were less endowed in the wallet, we frequented classic restaurants such as Pizza Hut, and the equivalent of Taco Bell, Taco Maker. By far the best food was at a row of small stores where the locals mostly ate. They were called the Kokio’s and each one served a variety of fried meat, rice, beans, chicken, fish and ice cold beers. A full meal including a Heinken for 6 bucks, mmmm good.

Besides eating, drinking and tanning we did visit various attractions on the Island such as the old fort “El Morro”.
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… Stay tuned for a complete recap.