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Well, it has been a successul fisrt day here, but of course it wasn’t without it’s hiccups! When I arrived here this morning, I was unsure of where I was going to stay! I blame much of this on my procrastination though.

As I was saying before, I decided to use the Couch Surfing website for this trip. I of course decided to go that route a little more than 2 weeks before the trip, and even after that I didn’t start making “surf” requests until a week and a half before I had to leave. I found one guy who said he could do it, but I never heard back from him.

Litterally, 2 days before the trip, my soon to become new friend Jose said he should be able to host me. I wasn’t 100% sure if he could do it, but after he got out of work he gave me a call. He went out of his way to drive me to the airport where I had my bag stowed in storage and he showed me around Isla Verde and his neighborhood (which I forget the name … Coronado?).

Afterwards, we went to an Argentine place which had a “Criullo” menu as well … which is authentic Puerto Rican food. I had the arroz com pollo criullo style and a side dish which is called mafonga. Mafonga is mashed plantains which can be stuffed with chicken of beef. It was all really good!!

Some of the highlights of the day were sleeping in the airport, taking 2 hours to go 20 miles via public transit, seeing “El Morro” and walking along sidr the massive waves, getting attacked by peigons, dodging peigon crap only to have another of his buddeis to crap on my leg, finding a place to stay for the night, bumping to Reaggeton in Jose’s car, eating authentic puerto rican food. All in all, a food day, but peigons beware for I will have my revenge!!