This is the continuation of the first Flashback post I started a while back. I would like to finish sharing this whole journal that we wrote on our honeymoon in 2005 before we leave to start our new Puerto Rico life adventure this fall.

Day 2: August, 8 2005, Continued

We left Old San Juan and a couple of American girls on the bus said they had just returned from the Bacardi rum tour, so we decided to go there. We got directions and were off to Cataño, the city it is in. This was our first experience with (Puerto Rican) freeway traffic -and it’s not really free. Crazier than before with everyone merging and driving in the emergency lane-  think I-25 rush hour times 2.

The Barcardi tour was ok, and they gave us free drinks. I tried the coconut rum and really liked it so I bought some. It was really a pretty short tour, so we were off on the road to our next destination by about 4:30.

We saw the the signs for the Arecibo Observatory and decided to take a detour from our way to check it out. It was like one lane traffic through the forest but with a line of cars that speed much faster than we would in the curvy mountains of Colorado. It was that curvy, but overgrown with vines hanging from the electric wires and tree branches that we try to grow as house plants hitting the cars.

Driving through the interior jungles of Puerto Rico that make tunnels out of trees

Finally we got to the top where the observatory was and it was closed at about 6pm so we are planning to check it out Wednesday when it opens again. We drove back down the way we came and got a little lost and had to retrace our path. Finally after ever more curves, trees, chirping frogs and people standing in the doorways, we made it here to Casa Grande. We are just resting because we know tomorrow will be another busy day. We are going to try and avoid those toll roads if we can and see the Camuy Caves and Indian Ceremonial Park.

Relaxed hanging out in a hammock at Casa Grande in Utuado, PR

…To be continued