Yaucomatic

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In November my mom and I drove to Yauco – a city about 40 min drive from Mayaguez. At first I planned on taking the kids too. Mom suggested we go alone. But it’s culture! Art!

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I’m SO glad we didn’t take them haha.  It was about 90 degrees out, with no wind and endless concrete radiating the heat back up to us. Sweatsville.

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Yauco is a cute city on a very steep mountainside. After Hurricane Maria the city decided to revitalize itself with murals strewn around the city.  They call it Yaucomatic

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One of the biggest murals are these famous steps. I actually think this painting was here pre-Maria but I’m not sure.

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Mom trying to look cute while sweating

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She took a photo of me.  I can’t be behind the camera all the time!

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Yauco is like any other city and has abandoned and broken down homes all around

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Down the street from the steps. Yaucomatic has a Google map on their website showing where all the murals are

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My family saw this road with steps at the end the last time we drove around Yauco

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My main goal was to see the colorful street with all the houses painted. But Yaucomatic didn’t have that on their handy Google map…so we just guessed a street and entered it into the GPS. We saw this view as we totally went the wrong way.

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Google GPS tried to direct us on numerous staircases (not helpful) and the most steep and twisty roads imaginable.  In fact, I actually stopped to ask a guy if we were indeed on a road and not someone’s driveway.  I’d die driving here in the dark. We saw our destination waaay over there….

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I should’ve taken more photos of the crazy road. But we were laughing, I was trying not to flip the car over sideways and suck it in as we squeezed by other cars. This is the road curving around a house.  Is it two way? Yeah, I think so.

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You know a street is steep when the sidewalk is steps

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Eureka! The city – or someone – put out a city and a PR flag so tourists could snap their selfies.  Cool!

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There were several other groups of tourists walking around – and it was a Tuesday midday!

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The locals were talkative and said that the residents volunteered to have their houses painted and the same artist is doing a similar street in the city of Aguadilla.

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Me thinks Mayaguez could use some artsy lovin.  It’s pretty ugly (is that an oxymoron?)

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Capturing the shadows

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Mom opted to stay at the bottom but I climbed up up up the steps to the top

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Looking down from the top

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The prettiest abandoned building ever

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Would wouldn’t be happy seeing these steps? There was a house at the top of this very long stair-strewn trail.  I assume there was a road up there for easier access to their home than the long route I took…

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I made this photo intending to make it black and white – nice shadow!

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A chatty local said we could walk up to this porch – no one lived there.  Um ok…it smelled like piss 🙁

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Love these!

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