9 Things You Need To Know About Puerto Rico

Are you plan­ning a trip to Puer­to Rico for this win­ter? Have you seen all the ads, checked out all the tourist sites, blogs and YouTube videos and still feel lost? Do you feel like you’re being sold to? Well, guess what? You are! Unlike the Unit­ed States and Europe, Puer­to Rico’s peak tourism sea­son is in win­ter, not sum­mer. That’s Con­tin­ue reading…

Should You Visit Puerto Rico With Delicate Electronics? 

Today was sup­posed to be a nor­mal day in Puer­to Rico (what­ev­er that might look like). I was sup­posed to record a voiceover for my upcom­ing video and start edit­ing it. Then, after 2–3 days of work, I would write a 2,500 to 3.500-word post for the same loca­tion. After that the cycle would start all over again. But nor­mal in Con­tin­ue reading…

Cidra, Puerto Rico | The Town Where It’s Always Spring 

Glob­al warm­ing has become a real prob­lem. You can hard­ly turn on the news with­out learn­ing about a place that’s burn­ing up. And Puer­to Rico is no excep­tion. Just recent­ly we’ve had sev­er­al weeks with tem­per­a­tures exceed­ing 100°F. Thank­ful­ly, that’s not the case in Cidra, Puer­to Rico. At 1,417 feet above sea lev­el, tem­per­a­tures in Cidra are usu­al­ly sev­er­al degrees below Con­tin­ue reading…

Cayey, Puerto Rico | Food, Nature and Art 

It was 8:38 in the morn­ing, on May 26th, and my wife and I were park­ing in front of the Ramón Frade Square in the town of Cayey, Puer­to Rico. The weath­er­man had announced a max­i­mum tem­per­a­ture for the day of 108° F, so we planned to be in and out before noon. Well, as you will learn through­out this Con­tin­ue reading…

Cataño, Puerto Rico, Where Possibilities Meet Reality 

  I start­ed this series about “5 Must-See Places in the town of ???” last Jan­u­ary in the town of Car­oli­na. And while some towns have more than lived up to my expec­ta­tions, oth­ers have not quite hit the mark. I guess you can find “5 Must-See” places any­where, if you look hard enough, but in some cas­es I just Con­tin­ue reading…

Bayamón, A Hidden Treasure Just 13 Miles Away
“My tale about spending a day in “la ciudad del chicharrón””

It was the morn­ing of Feb­ru­ary 28, 2023. The sky out­side was so blue that it made your eyes hurt. And to top it all off, the tem­per­a­ture was a mild 78 degrees. It was the per­fect day to go for a walk. So why not do it in a place that I hadn’t vis­it­ed in 50 years; a place Con­tin­ue reading…

Old San Juan Is For Walking

I’ll nev­er under­stand how there are peo­ple who jump in their cars and waste hours dri­ving around Old San Juan.  That’s the idiot’s way to see the Old City!  But there does­n’t seem to be a short­age of those.  Just vis­it Old San Juan any Sun­day after­noon and you’ll see the long line of cars going from Fort San Cristo­bal Con­tin­ue reading…