Caribbean 2014

Two hairy guys and Miu playing Pirates of the Caribbean.

Night photos

Posted: 2014-02-26 17:33:15 EET by Eerik ( 18.403870 lat, -66.092682 lng )

Me and Timo went to the El Morro fortress at midnight. Here are some results.

Rainforest visit

Posted: 2014-02-26 02:56:08 EET by Eerik ( 18.403870 lat, -66.092682 lng )

Today we visited El Yunque national forest, a rainforest national park near San Juan and took a couple of kilometers long forest walk, swimming in a pool below a waterfall.

Won a ticket too.. Before the forest walk I parked the car on a parking area on roadside behind some other cars, obviously too close to road. Rear part of the car was like half a meter on the road, and a police officer passing by did not like that. Well, have to hang that $75 United States District Court violation notice on my wall.. :P

By the way... These guys love their plastic bags. Check the picture, the plastic bags only contain stuff from one grocery store visit, our breakfast supplies.

Swimming in the waterfall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeixJ10oF5o&hd=1

Driving around the El Yunque park:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt87bWAHFUM&hd=1

Puerto Rico

Posted: 2014-02-25 06:59:29 EET by Eerik ( 18.403870 lat, -66.092682 lng )

Arrived. First lizard seen on our balcony. :)

Getting our rental car in here was not the easiest task. I had obviously been blind when booking the car and booked it from a random small company. The rental company was located off airport so first we had to wait an hour for the (nice) guys to pick us up and call them twice. Getting the rental car papers done was an another story, mostly because we didn't have a printed confirmation with us which would have made things easier.

Well, it still didn't take that long. An hour and half after landing we already had our car and were heading out of the airport area to the apartment, which was easily found and looks to be nice.

The weather in here is finally what we (well, me and Timo) were waiting for: humid and hot with insects and birds singing outside.

Miami

Posted: 2014-02-25 01:21:28 EET by Eerik ( 25.796471 lat, -80.280212 lng )

Stopover at Miami..

Leaving New Orleans

Posted: 2014-02-24 22:36:56 EET by Eerik ( 29.987551 lat, -90.256157 lng )

Breakfast, picking up a geocache (Just have to get one in each country) and visiting a historical cemetery next to the French Quarters was what this morning was made of. This blog entry is written at 10km altitude by the way, thanks to the well working on-board WiFi of American Airlines.

Mia got familiar with a local tradition, as it's her birthday today. The people of our breakfast restaurant attached a one-dollar bill on her shirt. When people see that they add an another bill and give her birthday wishes. :)

Creoli dinner

Posted: 2014-02-24 07:26:22 EET by Eerik ( 29.963659 lat, -90.045036 lng )

Today's dinner was authentic local creoli foond, at a place called Gumba Shop. Gumba is some kind of meat stew with rice, pretty good.. :)

I bought some tea earlier today from a teashop and realized that we don't have any equipment for making it. Well, boiled the water with a coffee machine and bought a stainless steel kitchen sink strainer for infusing the tea. Works.

Some more New Orleans photos

Posted: 2014-02-24 03:04:38 EET by Eerik ( 29.963659 lat, -90.045036 lng )

Walking around the city.

Raining..

Posted: 2014-02-24 00:09:27 EET by Eerik ( 29.963659 lat, -90.045036 lng )

It has been raining heavily almost all the time, so today it was a bit difficult to do anything outside. We drove over the 38 kilometers (yes..) long Lake Pontchartrain Causeway bridge, tried to take some Mardi Gras parade photos in pouring rain and now are drying ourself in the apartment.

The weather seems to be clearing a bit, so more photos and Mardi Gras in the program for evening.