The Scurvy Dog's Puerto Rican Blog, aka- Roberto's Puerto Rico

This Travel Blog is obvi­ously about Puerto Rico. Doh!

My Blog is not your typ­i­cal dia­tribe about the island’s great beaches, its superla­tive golf courses or its health spas which attract the rich and famous.

Those are things we already know about Puerto Rico. None of that will be fea­tured here.

I want to expose the heart and soul of Puerto Rico…

All in an effort to demon­strate what makes Puerto Rico, “The Jewel of the Caribbean”.  That said, I will also point out what to avoid and the cul­tural dif­fer­ences between the res­i­dents of Puerto Rico and main­land US, all in a most respect­ful way.  I live by the adage– “When in Rome…”.

So I’ll be sam­pling every­thing the island has to offer, the food, the music, the cul­ture and the his­tory. I will be report­ing on it here, every few days, allow­ing for any com­pli­ca­tions in the field.  A one man show of sorts… Anthony Bour­dane, look out!  Who knows, I might actu­ally get a tattoo.

I’ve spent a lot of time research­ing the “Com­mon­wealth of Puerto Rico” for this Web Site…

What I’ve found was most impres­sive.  Besides 400 years of Span­ish his­tory, Puerto Rican’s are fiercely proud of their island.  Whether it will remain a com­mon­wealth entity of the US or not, only time will tell.

If I were to rate my Blog for ‘adult con­tent’, I would say PG-13.  I will avoid any vul­gar lan­guage or bla­tant nudity, I promise.  How­ever, I will be cov­er­ing mature adult sub­jects like Casi­nos, Cock Fight­ing, the Night Life, ExPat sto­ries and the seed­ier side of the island’s culture.

Noth’ns off-limits.  Be Yee Warned… Arrg!

The peak travel sea­son is always the win­ter months for obvi­ous rea­sons.  Most tourists sel­dom ven­ture out of San Juan.  No time to do that.  In my first trip of 5 weeks, I spent a lit­tle over a week in San Juan before tak­ing off to explore the rest of the island.  That’s all his­tory… I moved to the island for good, 9 weeks later.  I like the place that much.

One last note, I’ve cre­ated a set of ‘Skull and Cross­bones’ icons to rate my expe­ri­ences by.  One being bad, 5 being great!  But to get 5, it would have to be free or very cheap.

After all, this Blog is for folks like me,  free thinker’s liv­ing on a budget.

Tools Used to Cre­ate the Dog’s Blog:

The “look and feel” for this Travel Blog was cre­ated on an old Dual Proces­sor G4 Mac with an exter­nal zero raid array, using Adobe’s Cre­ative Suit. A cus­tom Word­Press theme was cre­ated with Artis­teer. A mature tool for Win­doz, but still in beta for Mac (as of this post update). Artis­teer is a very pow­er­ful design tool.  I also found myself hav­ing to learn to use Final­Cut Express for edit­ing YouTube videos.

Artis­teer is actu­ally quite fun to use.

It is pos­si­ble to put up a free Word­Press Blog, but you are stuck with using their themes. Not a big deal since they have dozens to choose from.