Tonight I’m sitting in the wet blanked humidity of San Juan, Puerto Rico. I arrived in the airport last night around 8:30 pm with my Rockpool in tow. My next task was to get my Kayak out to the Avis shuttle bus. A task almost impossible considering I had my backpack, laptop and 3 large 50lbs sea kayak slices to carry. A man in his nice Airport customer service uniform came up to me with a wheel cart and offered his help. Something I was happy to have. It was not until I realized that his flip remark about a 2$ tip that I realized the first rule of PR for the foreign traveler is. Be prepared to tip. I was not that I minded the money for his help, only that I did not expect to tip airline employees.

I got my rental SUV and followed a nice young lady Vicky who knew the city, to Tres Palmas where I was staying. However in the end we found ourselves lost and had to make some interesting guesses. You know the type “well the place is on the shore. The shore is north. So drive north until you hit the water, head east and you’re bound to find it. Well, In the end I did. LOL!

Today my original plan was to drive to Levittown and then on to Carrie’s place about 2 hours from San Juan. However I ended up needing my drug fix and my supplier was back in Wisconsin which left me running round San Juan looking for a new dealer. Ahh, well, prescription drugs actually. That and the need for extra supplies left me at Tres Palmas for another night. Yeah, poor, poor little me!

Meanwhile in Levittown, Taino, Nydia & Carrie have met up and picked up Taino’s Impex. He was happy to discover his kayak (unlike mine) arrived in ONE piece.

Well that’s about it from here in sunny Acapulco. . . . or ahh, well you know where.

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