Random Thoughts on Puerto Rico

Pam/ October 31, 2007/ Travel

*Rain Forest Motto: It has just rained, is raining, or is going to rain. *The ‘Americanization’ (read fast food, Walmart, Kmart) is more prevalent that we expected. *English is spoken, mostly by younger PR Residents outside of the bigger cities and by a great number of people in the service industry. Speaking Spanish comes in very handy here. *Tourism seems

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Rain Forest, 5 October

Pam/ October 31, 2007/ Travel

We had another lovely breakfast at Casa Cubuy with two other couples; Andrea and Jason from Ottowa, Katia and Don from Washington DC. We set out up the road deeper into the rain forest and got a short distance before it started to rain. We happened to be at the new gazebo site when the rain started so we took

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Rain Forest, 4 October

Pam/ October 31, 2007/ Travel

We had a lovely breakfast at Casa Cubuy, the EcoLodge in the rain forest, El Yunque, of fresh fruit, scrambled eggs and dsome sort of potatoes. I especially enjoyed the fruit. After the morning rain shower Daniel and I set off on a hike. There’s a guy here, Rex, who suggested a hike over on river, to another, then to

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Rain Forest, 3 October

Pam/ October 31, 2007/ Travel

We left the beach after breakfast and headed towards Fajardo, just to check it out. We found our way to the place the ferries leave for the islands of Viegas and Culebra. We had recommendations for both. Maybe next time we go back we’ll venture out there. We carried on towards the rain forest, stopping in a small downtown. We

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