Day 1: Ponce

First of all, I have to give a little disclaimer: many of the source photographs that I used here are very high quality. Unfortunately, the scanner that I have access to, well, isn't very high quality. In fact, it's one of the oldest, crappiest scanners I have ever seen, and it makes everything way too dark. I tried using software to fix some of them, but it was more effort than the results made worth putting forth. That said, if you can't see detail in a picture, blame it on the scanning, not the photography. I will try to update the photos if I can get better scans...

This is the view from the balcony of our hotel room, at the Ponce Hilton Casino and Resort.

After we put our stuff down in the hotel, our first goal was just to hit the beach. This is me, at the first moment I hit the water... [photo by Rachel Werner]