Day 2 we were awakened by the sound of construction and trucks backing up (BEEP, BEEP, BEEP) and made our way to the bus stop intending to check out Old San Juan. We waited quite a long time and the bus never came. Restaurants are closed on Tuesday, buses don't run Wednesday. So we took a cab and explored the city. There are two forts in Old San Juan: San Cristobal and San Felipe. At San Cristobal I climbed atop a stack of cannon balls, tried to lock Julie and Michelle in a dungeon in the tunnels under the fort, and got a good view over Old San Juan.
We could've taken a trolley over to San Felipe, but it was a pretty nice day, so we walked across a huge open field, from which we could see the Bacardi factory. After a rest on the grass, we checked out San Felipe, "El Muro" ("The Wall"). I thought this would be a sweet nickname, but my traveling buddies refused to acknowledge me as "El Muro". After exploring the second fort we grabbed lunch and went back to Condado to meet Tim whose plane had just arrived in Puerto Rico.
Day 2 we were awakened by the sound of construction and trucks backing up (BEEP, BEEP, BEEP) and made our way to the bus stop intending to check out Old San Juan. We waited quite a long time and the bus never came. Restaurants are closed on Tuesday, buses don't run Wednesday. So we took a cab and explored the city. There are two forts in Old San Juan: San Cristobal and San Felipe. At San Cristobal I climbed atop a stack of cannon balls, tried to lock Julie and Michelle in a dungeon in the tunnels under the fort, and got a good view over Old San Juan.
We could've taken a trolley over to San Felipe, but it was a pretty nice day, so we walked across a huge open field, from which we could see the Bacardi factory. After a rest on the grass, we checked out San Felipe, "El Muro" ("The Wall"). I thought this would be a sweet nickname, but my traveling buddies refused to acknowledge me as "El Muro". After exploring the second fort we grabbed lunch and went back to Condado to meet Tim whose plane had just arrived in Puerto Rico.
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