I awoke this morning in our nice hotel room in Humacao, PR. As soon as I moved my legs, I was cranky. As I mentioned yesterday, we hiked for about 3 hours total and I definitely overdid it. All day today, whenever I sit for more than a couple of minutes, my legs tense up and it takes a while to loosen up again.
We left our hotel and were on the road by 10:15 (yes, AM!). I am determined this trip to take trips "off the beaten path" and that we did. We drove from Humacao (on the east coast) to Ponce (south coast) through the mountains. It was a really cool drive.
We arrived in Ponce around 2:00 and we were pretty hungry. We found a pizza place in downtown Ponce, but it was closed. We then drove around looking for somewhere else to eat and eventually determined that people just don't eat here. We did eventually find a neat boardwalk on the ocean with several small shops and ate there. We checked out the local beach and then decided to head for the hotel.
This hotel is definitely the highlight of Ponce for me so far. It's a resort right on the beach. We swam in the Caribbean Sea on a black sand beach and then played volleyball in the pool with a couple of random strangers (two kids from New York City, a guy from Jersey, and a guy that didn't speak English) for well over an hour. It was a lot of fun. We then grabbed some over-priced food at the hotel.
I'm now being eaten alive by mosquitos, so I'm leaving the lobby (the only place we could find wireless internet). I have begged and pleaded to get $20 from Matt to blow in the casino in the hotel, so we'll probably do that before retiring for the evening. :)
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