Pit stop: Parada Villas del Mar Hau (Isabela, PR)

VIA SABANA SECA and LEVITTOWN

OBSERVATIONS
• A sand crab just peaked out from under the dresser... 
• Like other LA countries, the lemons are green.
  
• I had gallo pinto at lunch (with my shrimp mofongo), but without Lizano sauce (native to Costa Rica), gallo pinto has less tang to it. 
• I drove about 2/3s across the country, and it took only an hour and a half at the most. 
• I drove yesterday, and therefore we have fewer pictures today. 
• Geckos, of a variety in color and design.
  
• Gas is about $3.40 per gallon, but except for on the army base, you purchase it in liters.
• Hammock hooks on my porch, hurrican shutters on my windos
• A lot of people here drive slow in the left lane.
• Puerto Ricans are super helpful. 
• A high police presence, and they, too, are helpful--I had to ask one for directions.
• Signs in the woods warning against rabid mongoose.
• Speak in English, speak in Spanish--most the time, you get to pick the language.
• Our Suzuki is reliable and runs well.
• I have seen more baseball stadiums than soccer fields.
• You drive down the highway, turn the corner, and there's the ocean. And you drive a little further (on the weekend), and there are all the people at the beach. Sometimes with really loud music. 
• We praised the Lord and prayed with brothers and sisters ...and it reminded us of special days in other places, but mostly it thrilled our souls this very morning (Sunday, 3/23).  We always need to be attentive to the here and now . . . . living in the past robs us of the present.