Rincon to San Juan

Our last night in Rincon we ate at the Lazy Parrot for the third time, clearly our favorite restaurant!  Our worst meal was at a sports bar, most other places were pretty good.  Amazingly we had great lasagne for $5 each at a pizza joint.  There are roadside stands all over the place, both in town and along the highways, selling fruit, simple lunches and breakfast mostly to Puerto Ricans.  We didn't try those, though we maybe should have. 

Here are a couple shots of Rincon, taken from the hills when we were exploring the countryside our last day.  It really is a beautiful area.  

We left Rincón about 8 am heading for San Juan.  The directions we had seemed straightforward, sure, we could drive this.  There are 'only' 3 million people in San Juan, and who cares if all the road signs are in Spanish (no English subtitles).  We just needed to follow Hwy 115 from Rincon to Hwy. 2,  take that into San Juan, then 26 to the car return.  We somehow got off 115 in Aguadilla.  (The highways go right through the middle of the towns, on very narrow streets.)  A very kind policeman got us squared away.

While wandering aimlessly around Old San Juan, we took a couple photos.  I couldn't resist the "cat on a hot tin roof."  The shiny car is reflecting so much light, it's hard to see the cat sound asleep on the roof with cars whizzing by and people all around.

The streets in OSJ are extremely narrow, with interesting and often colorful buildings packed together. 

Several times this week we have been saved by the kindness of strangers:  the policeman in Aguadilla, a woman in Old San Juan who noticed our confusion and gave us directions in perfect English, the desk clerk in San Juan who found us a cab driver to take us to Aguadilla our first day, the young man in our condo building who graciously showed us how to open the door (just hit the button, duh) and didn't make us feel stupid.

Tomorrow we fly to Culebra, rent a jeep from Jerry's Jeeps, and begin our second week in Puerto Rico.  Photos of our little house on Culebra coming soon!