A Random Trip to Puerto Rico - Day 3
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by Rob
Photos from day three of our trip to Puerto Rico just to hang out and skate.
A Random Trip to Puerto Rico - Day 3
 According to someone who posted a comment on the site, "fetiche de pies" is how you say foot fetish in Spanish. This guy with the club feet was a local junkie we saw every day in front of our hotel |
 Most of the girls there seem to dress extra spicy like our new friend the bartender here |
 Some random art in Old San Juan |
 Lost on the very narrow streets of Old San Juan. Driving there is crazy. We made several three point right turns even though we had a compact car. Things are tight there and you need to be a pro at parallel parking |
 We ended our Saturday night on the roof of the hotel just checking out the amazing views |
 The roof is where Frosty decided to involuntarily pass out (beer still in hand) so Dodge and I went and got our pillow and decided to just sleep on some chairs on the roof because the weather was absolutely perfect |
 Sunday morning we woke up and drove for a couple hours to this place called the Ditch of Death. I'm not really a fan of skating anything with "death" in the name, but the ditch turned out to be pretty fun. It's in the middle of nowhere. This guy's a local cart pusher |
 So there's part of the ditch. Apparently, someone died skating here years ago |
 It's an uphill battle to get to the walls at the top of each bank. Frosty's barely making it with enough speed on this wallride to fakie |
 I can't remember this guy's name. This is a heelflip to fakie |
 There are four levels of drop offs going downhill in the ditch. This is Bolle, our tour guide that made our trip for the weekend by showing us spots and making us legit to hang out in La Perla, the hard hitting Puerto Rican ghetto in Old San Juan |
 Dodge took the hike to try out the very tough to ride full pipe at the bottom of the ditch |
 Frosty kickflips to fakie on one of the steeper parts of the ditch towards the bottom |
Video footage of Frosty's uphill push battle to get to a backside wallride |
 After our Ditch of Death session, Bolle climbed a nearby orange tree and shook down some snacks for us |
 Right near the ditch is another amazing beach with some crazy rocks that water shoots out of when the waves break on the shore |
 If we had more time, I'd like to start a fire and stay the night at this lagoon here by the beach |
 I guess this thing Dodge and I are standing in is an old church that was near the beach. If it was really a church, I probably would have caught on fire |
 Reverend Dodge presiding over the church |
 It was just over two hundred bucks to fly to Puerto Rico from Tampa. There is no passport required, they use American money, and your cell phone still works like normal there. You have no excuse not to experience this place. We'll be back real soon |
 After skating all day Sunday, we spent Sunday night in the full blown tourist area of San Juan where they charge different prices based on if you're white or not |
 This random tourist we ran into could not handler the rum |
 Another friendly bartender. We didn't run into any lame people at all there except for a few sketchy store owners that make up prices after they look you up and down |
 More random artwork somewhere on the streets of San Juan |
 We sat on the high walls of the fortress looking down on La Perla, the place where the party was at that Bolle brought us to. Goodbye Puerto Rico. See you soon |
