Mucha lluvia! (lots of rain!)

So far, it has rained every day in June. It rained just about every day in May. It's pretty common have a nice morning and then have a cloudy afternoon, sometimes with rain, sometimes without. But this! It seems like the sun hasn't been out for more than a few minutes for weeks! This is a really really strange weather pattern.

We tried to have a Thursday adventure. We started out for Rincon with our friends Pat and Bill. The plan was to check out some art shops and studios in Rincon and then drive down to Boqueron for the evening, watch the sunset, drink some beer, and check out someplace different.

It started raining just as we drove into Rincon. Okay. Don't really want to walk around in the rain looking for art studios. So we headed out of Rincon for the highway south toward Mayaguez and Boqueron beyond. By the time we got to the highway, PR 2, it was raining so hard we could hardly see. Mission abandoned, our new adventure was just to get back to Isabela safely. It rained all the way home. Elaine and I both kept thinking "Oh, what a mess it's going to be when we get back!"

Fortunately, as frequently happens, it rained harder south of us (Aguadilla, Aguada, Rincon, Mayaquez) than it did here. Not that we didn't get a lot of rain. We did. But we didn't flood - except for the corral which as been wet for a month.

There has been no diving: the ocean is a mess from all the muddy water pouring down the rivers from the mountains. Elaine hasn't done much riding: the trails she usually rides, the ones that aren't totally flooded, are muddy and slippery and mosquito-infested.

This pattern is supposed to break by the middle of the week. As long as it's not replaced by a hurricane, I can't wait!