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Orlando Mergal | Puerto Rico By GPS

SEO, Social Media And Travel Blogs, Pick Two

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This morn­ing I con­duct­ed an exper­i­ment. It was some­thing that I should’ve real­ized for years. And yet, for some strange rea­son it elud­ed me. SEO on Social Media doesn’t work! Duh­h­h­h­h­hh! I’ve been at this gig since 1990, so I’m not exact­ly a spring chick­en when it comes to the web, or all things tech­nol­o­gy for that mat­ter. In fact, Con­tin­ue reading…
Punta Bandera, Luquillo, Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico By GPS

Luquillo, Puerto Rico | A Town About Beaches

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Click on image to watch the video If you’re look­ing for “things to do in Puer­to Rico”, then you’re def­i­nite­ly in the right place. If you’d like to enjoy the “best beach­es in Puer­to Rico”, with­out the incon­ve­nience of tak­ing a fer­ry boat —or even a small plane, then Luquil­lo is your best bet. If you’d like to com­bine your expe­ri­ence with a Con­tin­ue reading…
El Cerro

Gurabo Is Much More Than “El Cerro” 

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Gurabo is one of those lit­tle towns in Puer­to Rico that many peo­ple just ignore. It’s east of Caguas, a larg­er city, and south of San Juan, the Island’s cap­i­tal. So it’s on the way to some­thing, next to some­where, but not some­thing in itself. Right? Wrong!!! Gurabo is great. I actu­al­ly spent an entire day there with my wife Con­tin­ue reading…

Puente de Piedra (stone bridge)

Four Great Shots And A Day’s Work… All Before Breakfast

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Last Mon­day my wife and I got up ear­ly. I was going to shoot a cou­ple of build­ings in Cabo Rojo for a New-York-based cus­tomer. The idea was to catch the sun­rise, so we got up at 3:00am and had left by 4:00am. By sev­en we had shot both build­ings, had break­fast and were on our way to the coastal Con­tin­ue reading…

46 Things To Know Before Driving in Puerto Rico

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Dri­ving in Puer­to Rico has always been hec­tic. Road con­di­tions on the Island are in a deplorable state due to the depres­sion (yes, the cor­rect word is depres­sion, because there’s no such thing as a 10-year reces­sion) that has affect­ed the U.S. ter­ri­to­ry for close to a decade. Throw in the way many Puer­to Ricans dri­ve like mani­acs and it’s Con­tin­ue reading…

Danilo Pérez

The Puerto Rico Heineken JazzFest Comes Full Circle

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Twen­­ty-sev­en years ago, in the balmy month of June, a group of vir­tu­oso musi­cians from Puer­to Rico and abroad got togeth­er to hon­or cuban sax­o­fon­ist Paquito D’Rivera and raise mon­ey for the Inter-Amer­i­­can University’s Jazz Pro­gram. The event took place at Plaza Dárse­nas in Old San Juan. Through­out the years the event has tak­en place at oth­er venues includ­ing the Six­to Con­tin­ue reading…

The Puerto Rico Heineken Jazzfest 2016 In Pictures

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It all end­ed last night. The 26th edi­tion of the Puer­to Rico Heineken Jaz­zfest came to a close yes­ter­day evening with three excit­ing acts and the “doc­tori­fi­ca­tion” of one of Puer­to Rico’s most pro­lif­ic artists doc­tor Ray San­tos. Ray San­tos is bet­ter known for his arrange­ments for music greats like Mario Bauzá, Machi­to, Tito Rodríguez and Tito Puente, but he is also Con­tin­ue reading…

Charlie Sepúlveda at Puerto Rico Heineken Jazzfest

12 Shows, 4 Days And A Whole Lotta Jazz!!!

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The 26th edi­tion of the Puer­to Rico Heineken Jaz­zFest will take place from Thurs­day, March 17 to Sun­day, March 20, at the Tito Puente Amphithe­ater in San Juan. This year, the fes­ti­val will have a var­ied musi­cal offer­ing, includ­ing the intro­duc­tion of HEINEKEN THE LAB, an exper­i­men­tal pro­pos­al that will com­bine jazz with oth­er musi­cal gen­res on the first night (Thurs­day). Con­tin­ue reading…

Luis Álvarez, Vice President of Méndez & Co.

Ray Santos To Be Honored At PR Heineken Jazzfest 2016

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Jazz is in the air in sun­ny Puer­to Rico! Why? Because the 26th edi­tion of the Puer­to Rico Heineken Jaz­zfest is just six weeks away at the Tito Puente Amphithe­ater in San Juan. When? From March 17 thru the 20th. Accord­ing to Luis Álvarez, Vice Pres­i­dent of the Liquors Divi­sion at Mén­dez & Co., the orga­ni­za­tion spon­sor­ing and orga­niz­ing the Con­tin­ue reading…

walking in old san juan

Old San Juan Is For Walking

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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…