Lizards: 1 Boeing 757: 0

Survived another long night of traveling. At the moment I am in San Juan Int'l Airport awaiting the small commuter plane that will take me down to Ponce. I should be boarding in about twenty minutes. The time here is four hours ahead so it is 5:30 PM here and my plane left LAX at 2:50 AM this morning. I ended up paying a huge additional premium to check 3 extra bags and two of them are over the maximum weight allowance. I don't feel like I brought that much stuff. One bag is clothes, one books, one some random food, but I guess when you are moving full time you end up having to bring a lot. There has been a lot that has happened in the past week and the flurry of trying to completely cut ties to the states. I will update with a blog later once I'm settled into the boat, hopefully sometime tonight around 9 PM. I'm tired from the flights which were fairly uneventful up until our first attempted landing here in San Juan. We were probably no more than 1000 feet off the ground when the pilot abruptly pulled the plane back up and we started gaining altitude fairly rapidly. We banked hard over left back out towards the ocean when we got the announcement.



"Ladies and gentlemen, as you may have noticed, we have had to bypass this attempt at landing and we are currently gaining altitude in order to circle back around and once we are cleared we will make our final approach...again. The pilots received word from the tower that both runways were unavailable at the moment due to the fact that there are IGUANAS sunning themselves. The ground crews are working to clear the runways right away and we should be on the ground shortly, thank you for your patience."



How much money in fuel and time did American Airlines burn because iguanas want a tan? Welcome back to the Caribbean my friend.