It’s so unbelievably nice to be able to travel again.

Puerto Rico may sound exotic, but it’s still part of the United States, and entering was relatively painless.

We simply uploaded our vaccination cards, and checked in daily with a local health app.

We’d been there about 9 years ago, with our dear friends the Pecks, and spent a single night before our Caribbean cruise. That one night was enough to convince us that we had to come back and spend more time.

So very glad we did.

We landed in sunny San Juan on Tuesday and flew back home Saturday afternoon.

Perfect amount of time for us to…

Visit the Castillo San Felipe del Morrow Fortress, (that has been guarding the port of San Juan for centuries)…

And waddle around the blue cobble-stone streets of Old San Juan…

And, of course, enjoy mojitos and soak in the sun on Isla Verde Beach….

And take a day trip to the El Yunque National Rainforest…

And take a cooling dip in the waters of the Rio Espiritu Santo (River of the Holy Spirit) at the Cascadas Saltos waterfall…

And eat mofongo – a local delicacy of smashed plantains and pork in a sweet creole sauce – and drink guava sangria…

I know, right?

GUAVA-FREAKIN’-SANGRIA!

And just plain goof around the resort…

It’s good to be back home,

Where they are currently, as I type this, installing our pool.

But it was also nice to return to a little more normalcy in our lives.