Kristin and I conjured a trip to Puerto Rico for our birthdays this year. Considering our phones would work, the money is the same, Wisco is 7 degrees, and we’d never been there, it was an easy and exciting choice.
Research told us the people of Puerto Rico were kind, curious, and happy. I can say that every person we’ve encountered has been all those and mindfulness abounds. From making my Pina colada (Invented here) with the rum on the side so Kristin can have a double, to changing the TV channel at the bar to the Packer/Eagles game on the big screen.
We are in Old San Juan to begin our jaunt around the entire island. A city that reminds me of the French Quarter in New Orleans, filled with history founded by the Fountain of Youth guy, Juan Ponce de Leon in 1508.
We are trekkers, so our explorations are all done on foot. As we strolled, I found it impossible not to notice all the streets are paved with blue cobblestones called adoquines. Like I said, the phones work so Google told us that the stones are actually ballast from European ships in the 18th century. The ballast stones were originally made using the waste from iron smelting.
For the streets of Old San Juan, the third times a charm.
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