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From: Jane boyce <janeboyce@live.com>
Date: February 28, 2018 at 10:14:48 PM AST
To: Jane boyce <janeboyce@live.com>
Subject: Update 28
Now I've done the BIG 3: rode an elephant in a jungle, a camel in a desert and a horse on a Caribbean beach! I'm one lucky gal!! Rog didn't want to go so it was just my guide and me...sad for her because this is peak season & she usually is booked with 10 riders 2X a day...great for me to have my own private ride! We'll be leaving Vieques tomorrow so I need to wrap up my Vieques notes:-As we were about to drive off in our sporty red Jeep, the rental clerk said, "Don't lock the doors ever. If it's locked, someone will think you have valuables in it & break a window. They never steal vehicles cause...well this is a small island so there's no where they can go."-Drove passed the bunkers—the Navy's left overs. Also drove by the crumbling remains of a sugar beet factory & overgrown cotton plants...pre Navy remains. Sobering.-We chuckle over seeing over and over projects started but left in limbo like: a bike path about 200 feet long in the middle of no where; huge concrete lifeguard stations only half built; giant parking lots with handicap spots that locals say no one uses cause you can just drive right up to the beach, like we did.-DTE is here! Yup, Detroit Edition has lots of trucks & men here on Vieques!!-Hurricane damage here is obvious with poles down & anything not concrete damaged. One girl said she describes it saying it was like a huge brush hog took off all the vegetation over 5' tall.-After crossing multiple speed bumps (called death bumps by locals), the pavement ended & gravel road started. About 1/2 mile later, we see one of those "Your Speed is xx" signs that's working! Really?? Who would notice??I love traveling the "path less traveled."—
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