Tropical Diversion: Enjoying the USVI-Puerto Rico

I know we haven’t blogged in a while and sorry about that. We have been sailing around a bit not just hibernating on the boat on some exotic island. At the end of January we headed over to Puerto Rico by way of Culebra. We stayed a couple of nights at some very nice anchorages on Culebra, which is well known for all of it’s awesome snorkeling and nice beaches. Once you get out of the main bay, which is Encinada Honda there really aren’t many boats around. We totally skipped Encinada Honda this time and went around to the northwest side of the island and stayed a couple of nights in some nice bays. Then headed over to San Juan, Puerto Rico. I actually flew out of San Juan to San Francisco on the 27th to surprise Amanda for her birthday. She planned a birthday trip to San Francisco with some friends and family to celebrate her golden birthday (she turned 29 on the 29th). It was great because she didn’t have any idea I was coming and was totally surprised. We had four really fun days of running all over the city, going to Alcatraz, fisherman’s wharf, China Town, Little Italy and the super cross races in Oakland. Then we all flew back to Loveland and I stayed there for 3 more days.
Wes stayed on the boat with the dog’s but his sister flew out from Rochester to keep him company. They rented a car and ran all over Puerto Rico. Wes finally got back to the Bacardi factory to buy his 15 year old bottle of rum that he had been wanting since the first time we went there-haven’t cracked it open yet though.
So now we are back in St. Thomas and we have been going around the island from Charlotte Amalie to Red Hook. Getting a lot of things done on the boat and running into some friends. Hopefully we will be heading over to the BVI’s in a couple of days because we still want to get to Anegada, which is the furthest north of all of the islands and the only island in the BVI’s that we haven’t been to.