Peter's Puerto Rico Guy-Trip (written by Peter)
Puerto Rico was an adventure. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it didn’t seem to matter as the trip was full of surprises. I won’t bore you with all the details, but here are the memorable high (and low) points of our 4 (ha ha) day trip. I tried to take notes as things happened and though I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on the experience I will try and report the trip as I experienced it.
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Jason, John, Mike, Pete, and I were off to stay in Pete’s grandparents condo in PR to getaway and write some music for church. There was a little confusion about what time the flight left so we left for the airport a little later than we were originally planning since there was a little extra time. We managed to pack two acoustic guitars, two electric guitars, four laptops, a small MIDI keyboard, a few microphones, a couple of mic stands, and clothes for five people and four days into 5 carry-on and 5 checked bags. It was quite a squeeze to get everything in John’s Camry, but we managed with a few items having to sit in our laps. We went to the airport and through security to our gate. While we were waiting Jason was curious about what time we would return on Thursday and asked to see the itinerary. That’s when we all found out that we wouldn’t be back until Friday. There was a small error made when booking the flights. We figured we might be able to get the return flight changed, but we would deal no matter what happened.
The flight was a little rougher than usual, nothing too bad, but light turbulence most of the flight. When we got off the plane and found the rental car place. It took a little while to get the car and it was a bit smaller than the Camry (Mitsubishi Lancer). After a bit of work we got everything in with a guitar, mic stands, and three bags on top of Mike, John and I in the back seat. As we were leaving the car lot the rental guy felt sorry for us and offered us a Kia Sedona at same rate. We gladly accepted and moved our gear into the van. When we left, Jason tried to find the address we had by putting it into his phone’s GPS. The phone didn’t like the address. I tried a different app I had on my phone and it didn’t work that way either. Pete said he thought he knew sorta where we were going, but hadn’t ever driven when he had visited. We ended up driving around for about three hours in various directions and neighborhoods. Every time we tried punching in the address it seemed to say it was somewhere else. We eventually ended up at a mall and waited there for Pete’s cousin Saul (pronounced sa-UL) to meet us there. Saul spoke no english. He had been on the other side of the island when we first called, but we didn’t have to wait at the mall too long, which was good because it was closed.
We met Saul in the Sears parking lot and followed him, we thought to the condo. We ended up at his house because someone else was staying in the condo. His house was a bit run down. The guest room we (all 5 guys) stayed in had seen better days. The main outlet was coming out of the wall, the bathroom shower was missing a lot of tile, there was no hot water, and there were a lot of water stains on the ceiling. The room had a queen size bed in it. Mike and John set up on Pete’s air mattress in the corner with the most room while Pete, Jason and I lay sideways across the bed, which was really hard. Before too long it started raining outside and water started to drip from the ceiling onto Mike and John. They ended up moving the mattress to another corner near the door. At some point someone saw a roach out in the other room the size of a small puppy.
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