A list of our favorites in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Old San Juan: 500 years of changes
Old San Juan is a contrast of buildings, that somehow work perfectly together. It’s a walled city, with two massive fortresses dominating the coastline and the interior is a cozy city of pastel-colored buildings and blue cobblestone streets. Add in some thoughtful urban planning and you’ve got an amazing 500 year old city.
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As everyone you meet will tell you “Puerto Rico is not San Juan”, so we decided to hit the road for a few day trips to see what’s out there.
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We’re still sampling our way through the foods of Puerto Rico, but I am finding it a love/hate relationship.
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After spending an amazing summer in the Colorado mountains, we are ready for a little international travel!
We’ve passed the summer doing as many sports as we can cram in—and even decided to learn rowing/sculling at Dillon Reservoir to mix things up. What I can say is any minimal time on the rowing machine at the gym did absolutely zero in preparing me for the real sport! You can’t just go get a cardio workout trying to go as hard as possible when you are worried about wobbling around in a very unstable boat and not wanting to swim in ice-cold waters. Fortunately, we took lessons with the Frisco Rowing Center where we learned how to stabilize the boats (oddly enough, it’s mostly to do with holding your hands at a certain height), how to position your hands and wrists (oddly challenging to get this right), and how to put together the pieces of the stroke/recovery (not at all what I was doing when I was on the gym rowing machine!).
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