Day 2 Puerto Rico: Playa Borneario

What wonderful sights and sounds to wake up to here in Puerto Rico!

The first sounds to awaken me were at 4 am; the sounds of the roosters next door.  Here's a little sample I recorded for you:

Ok, before we get our day started, let's give you a little tour around our vacation rental here in Rincon, Puerto Rico.  Rincon is on the northwest coast of PR, and the house is just a couple miles inland, on top of a steep hill or small mountain.  Just high enough for a fun, spiraling climb up the curving hills, and to give us a beautiful view of the ocean from above.

We are renting a home in a typical Puerto Rican neighborhood, which we love, as it adds more culture and reality to our vacation than staying in a touristy beach resort.

 Here's where I wake up...in this sunny room with Sam and all her stuffed animals that she brought along in her suitcase...

Here is our living room/office, the only room where we can get decent internet, unless we're all on a device at the same time...

This is obviously our kitchen... no dishwasher, and the water runs barely lukewarm, so I had to cross a mental bridge to allow myself to eat off our sort-of clean dishes without fear of germs from improper sanitation measures... oh well, island life.

Here Colby and his sister are enjoying the storage area in the top part of "his" bedroom...

...and this is a darling little lizard that came to visit me on the window screen while I was washing dishes.  So nice of him to keep me company!  We've got lizards everywhere outside, so cute, and some quite large!  One looked like an iguana, wouldn't be surprised.






 Just a little fruit break here...a reminder of what wonderfully fresh and cheap delicacies can be found on this island..I got all these at a fruit stand for maybe six dollars.  yummy!!

Another view of our view...from our back terrace.  Love watching those cows on the next hill.

                                            Just hanging out on the hammock..

So our first beach trip of our first day..to Playa Bornearia (?), the public beach in Rincon.  Doesn't look too public, looks pretty empty here, which is nice.  Only on the weekends do beaches really get crowded here.  love it!

 (oops! tilt your head!!!)

                                   (oops again, keep tilting...)

that's all for now.  We actually checked out 3 more beaches this first day, but I will have to come back later to tell you more about that. Now it is time to try to beat this 3 am insomnia & get back to sleep.  Woke up to someone's blaring salsa music from a car racing down the mountain.  Now I just heard the gentle clip-clop, clip-clop of someone on a horse trotting down that same dark, quiet road...now a few coqui frogs... ahhhhhhh I just love love love the sounds of this beautiful island!!!!

buenas noches!!!