amStrandHebdo: on th(wrong)road again
Monday th 15, 02.1999 (01h56)
I must’ve taken th wrong road- again.
(I took a lot of wrong roads today- missd th de diego expressway exit onto
route 10, th new controversial ‘highway’ south from arecibo to utuado…
turnd back around & paid an extra 35 cents toll to get on it instead of
possibly
going on to camuy along th coast & driving down to lares by th eastern side
of
lake guajataca…
then i took 111 to lares instead of staying on route 10 to adjuntas because
it
seemd straighter & faster- wrong again! recurrent stretches of road
narrowed to
one flimsily guarded, winding lane by unrepaired land&mudslides…)
357 out of maricao- my destination, for th final day of th coffee harvest
festival, ‘el acabe dl café’- goes into 105, th panoramic route, & it’s
a solid half hour of roller coaster hairpin turns- to roll into mayagüez
soon
after midnight only to do a little unintended night tour as i momentarily
lost
my way across town to get onto highway 2…
pepe bermúdez, you must be one hell of a driver if you do this route in
just
under two hours! maybe th thing is to head south on 119 to san germán…?
-even doing 70- 75 from th moment I hit th expreso in hatillo, I only got
back
to vega baja about twenty to two…
some nice, moody fog patches off laguna tortuguero made me wish I’d gotten
off
th expreso sooner- saved fifty cents toll- & taken th little road around th
west,
manatí side of th lagoon- I love fog…(to be continued…)