Puerto Rico - Day 7: May 4th

Fully rested after a couple days in Isla Verde, we called a cab and headed toward the eastern city of Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Fajardo is the gateway city to two small islands off the eastern coast of the mainland. Vieques, and Culebra. For a mear $2.25, and an hour and a half ferry ride we will arrive on the small island of Vieques for 3 nights and four days of beach, kayaking, and nature. This will prove for me to be the nicest place to visit so far on the trip. It may not be a very exciting place to live, but the island of Vieques was a great place to visit for a couple days. Since the island is so small, they have no real form of taxi service on the island. What they do have are Publicos. Publicos are just like taxis, only instead of a taxi company, these are cars owned by the drivers. You catch them at the main parts of the island, they cost around $3 a person per ride, and they bring you to other points of interest on the island. It's almost impossible to get a Publico driver to stop anywhere off their route. None the less, we were able to track one down once we got off the ferry, and had him drive us across the island to the town of Esperanza where would we be checking in to the Trade Winds Guest House.