Have Bike, Will Travel

8/31/11

Rather bored from the lack of classes due to Irene, I decided to take a trip with my new bike to Plaza Las Americas which is a well known PR mall. Consulting my map of San Juan and trying to discern how far i needed to travel, I was delighted to see I only had to travel 3 inches to get there!  However, shockingly 3 inches on a map is much farther in the real world and as a result my legs were tired, shirt was drenched and my butt was sore from the not-so-well designed bike seat.

The mall was very nice and housed your typical upscale "mall" stores.  The mall was "grande". It was a mall on steroids. The enormity and scale was mind boggling. It was a catacomb of Macy's, Sears, and 1000 different cell phone and shoe stores.  The best part of the trip was the...... air conditioning.

On the way back I stopped at this nifty little burger joint called 'Jamberguera' which had been established for exactly
1 year. Despite the lack of a golden arch out front and clout among the other hamburger chain giants, the burger I tried had was "muy delicioso".

 

So here is another weird observance about puerto rico, a good percentage of jobs down here are in security.  Walgreens has security, Burger king has security, restaurants, gas stations, parking lots all have security guards.  And cops drive around town with their lights flashing.  I suppose that's just to let their presence be known.  You would figure with all the bars on the windows  (and nearly EVERY building is barred) that so many protective measures wouldn't be needed.  I suppose I feel safe! It's very different than Kentucky.

One last note, they still use the Card Catalogue system in the Library! Cracks me up!