Puerto Rico Station

... "Isla Nena", usually translated from the Spanish as "Little Girl Island", as a reference to its being perceived as Puerto Rico's little sister island. During the colonial period the British name was "Crab Island". Vieques is best known internationally ...

... visited all 50 U.S. state capitols, so it was a treat to be able to look at one of the territorial capitols. I believe Puerto Rico is the only U.S. territory to have a traditional capitol complete with a dome in the middle and legislative chambers on each ...

... pretty funny.  After the pigeon extravaganza, we went back to the poet's store and got the book signed.  While we were there, Puerto Rico's famed artist Rafael Tufino came in to say hi to her, so we got to chat with him and take pictures.  ...

... planned originally to visit the islands of Vieques and Culebra. After hearing horror stories of people sleeping in front of the ticket station for the ferry on weekends and not being able to get any tickets for the interisland flights for days we decided ...

... was not good food. After lunch we had to head back to the ship for our field trip to the U.S. Federal District Court in Puerto Rico. The court was awesome. I was able to see a drug trafficking sentencing. The convicted felon tried to get a man to ...

... once housed. It has been heralded both for its historical and architectural roles in Puerto Rican society. It was Puerto Rico's first ever fire station.  The building was built in 1882 and unveiled for the Ponce World Fair in 1883.  After the ...

... get to kym and goobs. I was happy to have any flight! (:  So my flight to minneapolis was great, but from there to Puerto Rico....of course the plane had frozen water pipes! ha. so we were delayed there for about 3 hours!! Yup. that was my adventure ...

... : beach and formal wear found their way into my predicted itinerary as I set off to the Caribbean island known as Puerto Rico.   As usual, the journey was bookended by a breathtaking trip through the mountains from Cuenca to Guayaquil, where my ...

... for many more, my family itself never did develop the taste for camping until I pushed them toward their very first experience. Puerto Rico is well known for its beaches, nightlife and touristic areas. But one thing even us locals very seldom do is to ...

... was back to Latin America…….. We elected to rent a car for these few days, mostly because the public transit in San Juan and Puerto Rico isn’t very good (ah yes, back in the USA!) So we picked up the car from ACE rental car, ...

... the Bishop way back when, by the Pope.  The Bishop left the remains in Spain to be prepared while he returned to Puerto Rico.  The remains remained in Spain for many years.  The next time the succeeding Bishop was through Spain he picked ...

... one extremely lazy day due to a massive Rum hangover of Ness's, so the next two days we made an effort to check out what Puerto Rico had to offer. The first day we took off to a beach with the name in Spanish "dirty beach", but no idea ...

... . This phenomenon occurs only in tropical areas, typically in mangrove-protected bays such as the one found here at La Parguera.  Puerto Rico is the only place on the planet that has three sites where you can depend on this phenomenon to occur every ...

... WOW, what a shitty intro!  Ha-ha such an attention grabber… Anyways, I feel great right now.  Arrived here to Puerto Rico at 5:30 this morning and a really good swell is hitting tomorrow.  But before I begin to babble about waves, let ...

... out. We drove all the way back towards Lajas and farther. Once we thought we were completely lost we stopped by a Gas Station and asked for directions. I pulled out the Travel Guide and called every Guesthouse on the list. By about the 15th call someone ...

... would swing by on our way home to see if we could see our friends. For lunch, we stopped at a little truck next to a gas station that had a big sign for pollo (chicken).  I was able to chat with the man working to figure out that we could get ...

... with all my bags all by myself.  As I heaved my faithful Northface super-bag down a set of stairs at Jackson station I kept repeating to myself "I packed it - I've got to cary it....".  Blimey- maybe I can off load something ...

... , that'll explain it better. pictures worth 1,000 words as the saying goes. (: then from there you hike some more to a  ziplining station! you go down four of them! I'm still afraid of heights but since I had already done it, it wasn't as bad as the ...

... meeting other members to share tips and experiences with. Next came the emergency muster drill at 5:15. We proceeded to our muster station, which is the Fortunes Casino. Kind of strange place to gather if we are able to sink and need to be escorted out ...

... on our way. This route traversed some residential areas, the Contador hotel area, and the convention center before dropping us at the station in Old Town, 39 minutes later.  We then walked across the street and picked up the free trolley to take us ...