Day 180, Year 6 Less Than 24 Hours
Date: Friday,, April 22, 2011
Weather: Sunny with No Wind Early; Rainy Late Afternoon
Latitude: 18 05.542 N
Longitude: 065 28.460 W
Total Trip Miles: 24.44
Location: Esperanza, Vieques-Puerto Rico
By 2:30 tomorrow afternoon we will be meeting our children and grandchildren on the ferry dock in Isabel Segunda. It has been a long year and a half without seeing them and we are just so anxious to be together with them again. Unfortunately, the logistics of how to get there with all of the food and “stuff” that we will need next week are still plaguing us. We know we’ll get there, we just don’t know how yet.
We left Fajardo early this morning and got back to Esperanza around noon. We picked up the mooring that Tom on Caribbean Lady offered us when we were here on Wednesday. We went into Esperanza, checked the place where you can rent motor scooters and found out that many will be turned in tomorrow and Sunday. So if we are willing to pay $50 a day for a motor scooter, it will be available. We then went to the little museum to pick up a local map and then we went back out to the beach-front street to find a bus (publico) to Isabel Segunda. Just as we walked toward the street, a publico flew by. We tried to follow in hopes of hailing it, but it was out of town too quickly for us. Then we saw another one coming toward us. It stopped so the driver could speak with someone, so we rushed over and asked where we should wait for a publico to Isabel. He told us to jump in, and out of the way stops to pick up people who had gone to the beach for the day, we arrived at the ferry dock in Isabel. We talked to the driver, Estavon, about taking us and our baggage to the beach house tomorrow, and we “think” we can call him and he will come get us. We’ll see.
Isabel was very quiet this afternoon with the Catholic mass for Good Friday being blared into the streets. We did visit Blackbeard Sports to inquire about the possibility of renting bikes for the week and to get prices for their various dive and snorkel trips. A woman named Diane was working in the shop and she was a tremendous source of information. We got a ride back to Esperanza with a publico driver named Sharon. It was quite a coincidence that she is also the driver the house manager had contacted to meet our children. Unfortunately, she discovered that she has a prior commitment and can’t meet them. Dennis, the house manager emailed that he will find someone to meet them but that he cannot help us with our transport from Esperanza. So on goes the adventure.
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