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a drive along Trujillo Blvd. On this street has been erected the house of Trujillo's daughter - a beautiful Spanish style mansion. The Blvd itself isnt much to rave about. It is just a nice ocean view drive.
Tuesday morning was spent in packing and getting ready to go. We had to go out to the ship in a launch as it was too big to come up the river to the dock. There was a quite a swell to the ocean, but the transfer from launch to ship was made without mishap.

We sailed on the Puerto Rico Line "Coamo". We had a nice cabin on Promenade Deck - what a relief after the Mme's! The food was excellent as was the service. I think it is even better than the U. Fruit - and that is saying a lot. The trip was only a overnight one - wish it had been longer.

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[[double underlined]] Puerto Rico [[/double underlined]]

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We arrived the morning of September 18th. It was rather a warm day, but not too much so. San Juan was the only port where we had to open our baggage, or where they delayed us at all. Dick's absolute [[strikethrough]] th [[/strikethrough]] truthfulness in following directions on the custom's declaration seems to have mixed the officials. We waited until they got the motor out of the hold, and then Dick followed the taxi to the hotel.

We had been advised, by Mr. Evertson, to go to the Capital Hotel. Not knowing of any other, we followed advice. Of course there is the Condado-Vanderbilt, which we have heard is as expensive as its name. Our living would have been about $15. a day. How we could afford that! Anyway, the Capitol was clean even tho' a little bare and run down. The food wasn't so bad. I wouldn't have been satisfied to stay there all the time tho'.