Here is the conclusion Mike and I have come to...if we come home from a "vacation" completely tired and feeling like we just got rocked, it was a success. And so the story goes, we come home from our week in PR feeling in need of a vacation....what a surprise.
The good news is that we dominated the top half of the island from coast to coast, and then some. The main focus was seeing the Rip Curl pro surf contest, and using time in between to see everything else. From the minute we set foot on Puerto Rican soil we were racing against time to make the most of our 6.5 days.
Mike knows how to weave some magic when it comes to planning agendas and time management, which usually entails back to back adventures which are always off the beaten path, and the only way to go.
-Witnessing the best surfers on the planet doing their thing-inspiring.
-Ferrying to the small island of Culebra, having a world class beach all to ourselves, experiencing my first dive with an underwater welder by trade, as my "dive master" (the only one on the island available and willing to take us out)-terrifying/priceless
-Exploring caves carved by the ocean, and others hidden in the rain forest ALONE-thrilling
-A personal guide leading us by kayak, to an enchanting bay hidden by mangrove trees, in the pitch black of the night, through bioluminescent waters-spellbinding
-Cemeteries, Walmarts, loosing our way, finding our way...
Now back to reality.
