Day 3The days are just getting better and better. The sun is brighter, the horizon clearer, and it’s the weekend, so it’s party time. Not to say people don’t party here during the week, but…
I started as usual with breakfast at the Hacienda, which is where I write this, and then off to the office, Roy’s. I did of course run into a few friends and clients I hadn’t seen yet, and David cajoled me into trying one of his fresh baked biscuits Georgia style, which was great. I visited with Sheila of Vieques Fine Properties briefly as she was ordering breakfast on the run, ah… the life of a realtor, and I met some new home owners who just bought a home in Pilon with an incredible view.
After sharing some time with Joey, the manager of Vieques Car Rental, I headed out to walk around town a little. I stopped to see the new location of Sol Creations, on the corner of the “town square,” and visited and window shopped all the wonderful, breathable cotton designs she has for men and women, and was as engrossed in the architecture of the old historic house as much as the fashions. Leaving there, I headed across to the square and the historic Bar Plaza and the Mayor’s Office Complex. I strolled by the catholic church and down towards the ferry and Mar Azul, where I stopped to visit Helen at Island Real Estate. She and Denny have been friends forever and she is also the owner of Vieques Events, Vieques premiere cultural and events publication. Our visit end with Denny calling saying he had brought home Ensalada de Carrucho for lunch, and nothing holds up a great conch
salad, so we parted and my walk continued across the street to Mammasonga’s for lunch.
After a tasty lunch, I wandered back across town to my car, and spied the Methodist church, which had undergone a renovation job started the year before. It looked fabulous and so bright and sunny. The cross in front of the wall is a "Terry Price" original. Terry was an incredible sculpture in steel. He had an eye for creating. I paused to catch a view of the harbor and all the sailboats, and then back
up the main street to get back to my car. The ferry didn’t run on schedule today, and on a weekend, that’s a real hardship on all the businesses from the public drivers to the restaurant and food kiosk purveyors. Needless to say town was pretty slow for a Saturday afternoon.
Back in Esperanza the Malecon was fairly quiet for a Saturday, but as oyu can see, the weather is beautiful. Just passed on through though and headed to Blanco’s colmado for some rudimentary dinner supplies as I’m heading home for a swim in the pool, read some Joel Goldsmith, and spend a quiet night at home.
Epilogue: I was early to bed and awakened at 2:30 AM by music from one of the bars on the Malecon, and again at 3 and 3:30. It sounded like it was just outside the window. It was blasting and it'a couple miles down the road. It wouldn’t have bothered me, but that Salsa-Reggae beat got my feet to movin’ and twitchin’ each time. It was just a tease each time, a temptation I resisted. Ah…. Free will!
jim
Day 3
After sharing some time with Joey, the manager of Vieques Car Rental, I headed out to walk around town a little. I stopped to see the new location of Sol Creations, on the corner of the “town square,” and visited and window shopped all the wonderful, breathable cotton designs she has for men and women, and was as engrossed in the architecture of the old historic house as much as the fashions. Leaving there, I headed across to the square and the historic Bar Plaza and the Mayor’s Office Complex. I strolled by the catholic church and down towards the ferry and Mar Azul, where I stopped to visit Helen at Island Real Estate. She and Denny have been friends forever and she is also the owner of Vieques Events, Vieques premiere cultural and events publication. Our visit end with Denny calling saying he had brought home Ensalada de Carrucho for lunch, and nothing holds up a great conch 
salad, so we parted and my walk continued across the street to Mammasonga’s for lunch.
up the main street to get back to my car. The ferry didn’t run on schedule today, and on a weekend, that’s a real hardship on all the businesses from the public drivers to the restaurant and food kiosk purveyors. Needless to say town was pretty slow for a Saturday afternoon.
I left there to return my car to the lady I was sharing it with for the day and returned to Esperanza only to find she had already left. My promise made, I returned to Esperanza where I had spied some construction going on at Duffy’s. Got there and sure enough, there was Hugh Duffy who just turned “90” overseeing the construction of a deck addition on the front of Duffy’s to increase seating to at least 40 additional patrons. The Duffy’s restaurants are always under construction, ever expanding. They have two in Pilon awaiting permisos and liquor licenses, and there Chez Shack further in Pilon, which has been popular since he first opened. Duffy was the original restaurateur in Vieques and built Island House, Bananas, La Campesena and others, every one a success.And, as an aside, you can see in the above image, the municipality has just finished restoring the malecon and repainted it a lovely Caribbean green and brown. Really, it looks great.
After checking is with Mary and Joey, and a short rest, Burr, linda and I were off to another friends guesthouse and restaurant “The Trade Winds” for dinner. Thank goodness we had rezzies, because the place was jammin’. And this was monsoon season, which tis the tail end of the low season in Vieques.
And then there was sunrise this morning.
“A Dinner Evening at Casa Cascadas” 
