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• About Us  (1)

  As a semi-retired guy from Alaska, I’m busier than ever. Design­ing and post­ing to this Travel Site is a new chap­ter in a long career in the graphic arts.  I worked in com­mer­cial print­ing doing pre-press lith­o­g­ra­phy, typesetting…

  • Scenic PR Checks 

    I’m very excited about being able to offer these rea­son­ably priced checks to my Puerto Rican friends! I’ve teamed up with a state­side check ser­vice to cre­ate a line of strictly Puerto Rican checks.  All were shot in PR. There are…

  • Pri­vacy 

    RobertosPuertoRico.com Poli­cies When you are vis­it­ing web­sites online you owe it to your­self to read what the deal is before you buy. So Sez the Dog.. Arrg! It is time well spent to acquaint your­self with the place you would like…

• Cal­en­dar of Events 

  Me PR Cal­en­dar Page will be updated as time allows. PLEASE– If your town or orga­ni­za­tion is spon­sor­ing a local event, con­tact me via the CONTACT PAGE and I will put it on me CALENDAR.  It’s FREE.  I may even come and cover the…

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• Photo Tips  (1)

  This is not aimed at those pho­tog­ra­phers try­ing to make a liv­ing at it. That would be a sep­a­rate page. This is intended for begin­ners and advanced ama­teurs look­ing to take home some great shots from that ‘Trip of a Life­time’. The…

  • iPhone Photo Sug­ges­tions 

    If you got to this page via a search, you might want to check out the Photo Tips & Sug­ges­tions for New­bies Page as this is where I explain a few things. Click the Photo Tips but­ton above. The links on this page…

  • Per­for­mance P&S 

    If you got to this page via a search, you might want to check out the Photo Tips & Sug­ges­tions for New­bies Page as this is where I explain a few things. Click the Photo Tips but­ton above. The links on this page…

  • Advanced Point & Shoot 

    If you got to this page via a search, you might want to check out the Photo Tips & Sug­ges­tions for New­bies Page as this is where I explain a few things. Click the Photo Tips but­ton above. The links on this page…

  • Bud­get Video­Cams 

    If you got to this page via a search, you might want to check out the Photo Tips & Sug­ges­tions for New­bies Page as this is where I explain a few things. Click the Photo Tips but­ton above. The links on this page…

  • Water­proof P&S 

    If you got to this page via a search, you might want to check out the Photo Tips & Sug­ges­tions for New­bies Page as this is where I explain a few things. Click the Photo Tips but­ton above. The links on this page…

  • Mir­ror­less Cam­eras 

    If you got to this page via a search, you might want to check out the Photo Tips & Sug­ges­tions for New­bies Page as this is where I explain a few things. Click the Photo Tips but­ton above. The links on this page will…

  • Dig­i­tal SLRs & Lenses 

    If you got to this page via a search, you might want to check out the Photo Tips & Sug­ges­tions for New­bies Page as this is where I explain a few things. Click the Photo Tips but­ton above. The links on this page…

  • Cam­era Bags & Tripods 

    If you got to this page via a search, you might want to check out the Photo Tips & Sug­ges­tions for New­bies Page as this is where I explain a few things. Click the Photo Tips but­ton above. The links on this page…

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• Travel Tips  (1)

  These per­sonal obser­va­tions come after hav­ing spent my first full year in Puerto Rico. Gen­eral facts about Puerto Rico can be had by vis­it­ing the CIA fact page that was updated in Sep­tem­ber of 2010 and Wikipedia’s site which I…

• Maps of PR 

  Please note that Posts about loca­tions within Puerto Rico now con­tain a link show­ing where that Post took place.  You sim­ply click on the graphic and it will pop-up a small ver­sion of me Grande Map, like the one below. Rob…

• YouTube Videos 

  Videos are added in chrono­log­i­cal order, the newest are at the bot­tom… 17 and count­ing Most of my videos are shot with a VadoHD.  I love the thing.  It’s tiny, has a fixed focus, non-zooming wide angle lens and 8 Gigs of…

  • Quick­Time VR 

    Not sure what a Quick­Time VR Panorama is?  No prob­lem. Its basi­cally a still image you can scroll 360 degrees (with your mouse), from within the pic­ture frame. Now you can see what’s behind the cam­era too! They are very popular…

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• Cat­e­gory: Greater San Juan Metro­plex, Old San Juan  (15)

  Places to visit while on vaca­tion in Old San Juan and the Greater San Juan Metro­plex. Home to half the islands pop­u­la­tion of 3.8 mil­lion. The Metro­plex includes– Toa Baja, Catano, Baya­mon, Guayn­abo, Hato Rey, San­turce, Tra­jillo Alto…

  • Uni­ver­sity of Puerto Rico Botan­i­cal Gar­dens by: Roberto

    Novem­ber 13, 2011, 17:12

    Another ‘Top 10″ attrac­tion of PR and San Juan in par­tic­u­lar. Yes, the gar­dens on the grounds of the Uni­ver­sity of Puerto Rico (UPR) had been on my orig­i­nal ‘hit-list’ of places to see.  I’m a lit­tle ashamed I had not come to…

  • 2nd Annual Cof­fee Expo of PR & Lunch too by: Roberto

    Octo­ber 16, 2011, 10:32

    Me First Mate and I had been look­ing very for­ward to the Cof­fee Expo.. it did not dis­ap­point.  When we got there at 10:30AM, the Expo had only been open a cou­ple hours. This was also an oppor­tu­nity to check out the Dr. Pedro…

  • British Bat­tle of 1797 Reen­act­ment Update by: Roberto

    May 5, 2011, 23:58

    Credit, Where Credit is Due. I had the good for­tune to receive some specifics regard­ing the folks par­tic­i­pat­ing in the reen­act­ment. As it turns out, there IS a local group that stages reen­act­ment exer­cises, right here in…

  • San Juan– The British have landed by: Roberto

    May 2, 2011, 23:53

    A Reen­act­ment of the 1797 Attack on San Juan by the Brits The US National Parks Ser­vice that runs El Morro and Fort San Cristóbal staged quite a show.  El Morro is the per­fect venue for a reen­act­ment.  Some­thing I wish they…

  • Sun­day Morn­ing in East Old San Juan by: Roberto

    Decem­ber 26, 2010, 14:39

    Off the beaten path.. just like I like it. We hooked up with the San Juan Photo & Social Club for a stroll through a part of Old San Juan most folks never see. East Old San Juan is home to the Sixto Esco­bar Sta­dium, the Parque…

  • PR Inter­na­tional Auto Show 2010 (PRIAS) by: Roberto

    Octo­ber 25, 2010, 20:26

    Plaza Las Améri­cas Revis­ited. the 12th annual event is billed as the world’s largest auto mall show, fea­tur­ing a vast assort­ment of cars, trucks, SUVs, mini­vans, hybrids, drag­sters, ATVs and motor bikes. All under one roof with an…

  • Trol­ley Stop 24 and Old San Juan Revis­ited by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 23, 2010, 08:27

    El Morro and Old Town from an Open Trol­ley… This Post and Video is regard­ing a quick trip into San Juan for fam­ily vis­it­ing from the ‘main­land’, back before the San Blas Marathon. Because park­ing is sooo ridicu­lous in Old…

  • The Coqui Inn of San Juan by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 7, 2009, 10:22

    A Mixed Bless­ing.. I want to state upfront that I really liked this place.. A laid back expe­ri­ence with a def­i­nite island vibe. I would stay here again, for sure. How­ever, its not the Howard John­son by any stretch of the…

  • The Bac­ardi Dis­tillery, ohhh yea! by: Roberto

    August 31, 2009, 09:20

    I rode the A5 into Old San Juan again, but got off a lit­tle early so I could get shots of the cruise ships unload­ing. Then I took the oppor­tu­nity to take the ferry over to Cataño where the Bac­ardi Dis­tillery is for the big…

  • Rid­ing the Tren Urbano Tran­sit Sys­tem… by: Roberto

    August 31, 2009, 08:49

    One of my goals was to try out the Caribbean’s only mass tran­sit sys­tem. It costs a buck-50 each way so its pretty cheap. It cuts across the Greater San Juan Metro­plex serv­ing sev­eral com­mu­ni­ties. Its just under 11 miles long with 16…

  • Old San Juan… by: Roberto

    August 29, 2009, 17:28

    Its every­thing they say it is & then some The archi­tec­ture and nar­row, blue cob­ble stone streets are right out of the past. Very roman­tic. Too bad I was there by myself. Doh! Before I speak of THE main “tourist destination”…

  • Plaza Las Amer­i­cas, San Juan, PR by: Roberto

    August 28, 2009, 09:42

    The Largest Mall in the Caribbean.. I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not a mall per­son, but this is one beau­ti­ful, immac­u­lately main­tained mall.  Its just off the Las Amer­i­cas Express­way at Roo­sevelt.  Every con­ceiv­able retail…

  • San Juan, PR: 87F, 65% Humid­ity and Lov­ing it! by: Roberto

    August 26, 2009, 19:52

    More in-depth posts will fol­low, but I wanted to get this one out before it got too late. No has­sles along the way, so that’s a good thing. Jet-lag was not bad either, since I had been up 36 hours with only a short nap on the run from…

  • High Rez Map of Route Around the Island by: Roberto

    August 10, 2009, 04:04

    The map I cre­ated of my route around the island is now avail­able in high res­o­lu­tion from the ‘Maps of PR’ page.  Sim­ply scroll to the bot­tom of the page for the link.  You are wel­come to down-load and print it  for personal…

  • 1st Week of Puerto Rico Travel Blog by: Roberto

    July 17, 2009, 17:26

    The Plan: I will be spend­ing most of the 1st week check­ing out Old San Juan, the Forts, the Beaches, the Busi­ness Dis­trict with a lit­tle shop­ping along the way.  I’ll also make exten­sive use of the bus sys­tem and the Tren Urbano mass…

• Cat­e­gory: Isla West Region, Puerto Rico  (6)

  Great beaches, world class surf­ing and home to the islands ExPat com­mu­nity in Rin­con, The West region is also home to Hormigueros, Mayaguez, Anasco, Aguada, Moca, Aguadilla and the island of Desecheo.

  • USDA Trop­i­cal Agri­cul­ture Gar­dens of Mayagüez by: Roberto

    Jan­u­ary 28, 2011, 19:56

    A ram­ble through the grounds of the USDA/TARS– the Trop­i­cal Agri­cul­ture Research Sta­tion of Mayagüez. This facil­ity was on my orig­i­nal ‘hit list’. There are lots of ref­er­ences to it on the Net. Here’s a link to the TropAg…

  • Surf’n Sea­son on the West Shore by: Roberto

    Novem­ber 29, 2010, 17:20

    A Beau­ti­ful Day in Aguadilla Though Rin­con is known as the ‘Surf­ing Cap­i­tal’ of PR, surf­ing takes place all along the west coast.  It sim­ply depends on where the best waves are.  It’s a 2 hour drive from Coamo to the lit­tle town…

  • Back­track to Rin­con and Mayaguez by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 26, 2009, 22:22

    Back on the road in the Rodeo The good news is, auto ser­vice is pretty cheap here com­pared to home. They replaced both rear brake drums, pads and a seal. With labor, it came to 0. Not bad as far as I’m con­cerned. Plus they…

  • Back to Arecibo and Points West… by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 24, 2009, 23:03

    Because I’m run­ning short of time, weather issues and hav­ing to deal with car repairs, I’ve had to zip around the West and South West parts of the island. Yes, my front brake pads have to be replaced so I’m loos­ing more time. I will…

  • High Rez Map of Route Around the Island by: Roberto

    August 10, 2009, 04:04

    The map I cre­ated of my route around the island is now avail­able in high res­o­lu­tion from the ‘Maps of PR’ page.  Sim­ply scroll to the bot­tom of the page for the link.  You are wel­come to down-load and print it  for personal…

  • 3rd Week of Puerto Rico Travel Blog by: Roberto

    July 17, 2009, 18:05

    The Plan: I will try to cover all of the North shore and West end of the island in this week.  This will include side trips to the Arecibo Radio Dish and the Rio Camuy Caves.  I will spend time in Camuy, Isabela, Aguadilla, Rincon,…

• Cat­e­gory: Isla East Region, Puerto Rico  (11)

  Home to Fajardo with ferry access to Vieques and Cule­bra as well as Las Croabas, Ceiba, Punta San­ti­ago, Mon­key Island, Humacao, Yabu­coa and Maunabo

  • The Old Span­ish Ruins of Maun­abo by: Roberto

    Octo­ber 2, 2011, 09:10

    This is a fol­low up to my last post about the Land Crab Fes­ti­val in Maun­abo. I did not get into any back­ground on the town last time so I’ll do it now. The ruins of Cen­tral Matuyas shown here are from a much ear­lier time than the…

  • Maun­abo Land Crab Fes­ti­val, Sept 4th 2011 by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 28, 2011, 21:17

    This report is a lit­tle bit late, but I wanted to get it in before the end of the month. ‘Been very busy with other posts and work on the home front. Also had issues with elec­tric­ity and our DSL ser­vice dur­ing the last 2 storms. We…

  • Remains of Cen­tral Roig Sugar Mill in Yabu­coa by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 12, 2011, 14:36

    This was the sec­ond day of our trip to Yabu­coa and the last of 3 posts. I only had about an hour and a half to check out this site so I’ll have to come back for more shots.  There are some fine-art oppor­tu­ni­ties here. By most…

  • Scenic Hwy 3, Punta Tuna Light­house & Beaches by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 3, 2011, 00:12

    As men­tioned in my last Post from Yabu­coa, I am explor­ing the south­east coast in more detail. Thanx to Tony, we were able to hang around a cou­ple extra days. Hwys 3 & 901 along the coast between Patil­las and Yabu­coa. Highwa…

  • Yabu­coa, Puerto Rico– The City of Sugar by: Roberto

    August 28, 2011, 11:48

    I got lucky with the weather– Last Thurs­day, Fri­day and early Sat­ur­day were great (before Hur­ri­cane Irene). By late on Sat­ur­day, the sea was begin­ning to churn as squall after squall rolled by. All things con­sid­ered, we had very…

  • The Moun­tains Above the Yabu­coa Val­ley by: Roberto

    Decem­ber 29, 2010, 20:43

    Where every­one has a ‘Mil­lion Dol­lar View’ By spe­cial invi­ta­tion, me First Mate and I had the oppor­tu­nity to visit with a fam­ily on Christ­mas vaca­tion from Chicago. Tony had seen me scurvy blog and wanted to show us around Yabucoa.…

  • Puerto Rico Video “From the Road”… by: Roberto

    Octo­ber 23, 2009, 23:29

    Mon­key Isla & Points South Along High­ways 3 and 53 This HD Video was shot lit­er­ally “From the Road” as the lit­tle Vado HD vid­cam was mounted in a bracket and clamped to the roof rack of my Isuzu Rodeo. I like the wide angle…

  • The East Coast Tour Via High­way 3 & 53 by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 19, 2009, 19:11

    Beau­ti­ful Las Croabas.. The small crowded town of Las Croabas has a very nice cen­tral plaza. Some­thing to be proud of. Like all these small towns, they have their tight, one way streets, usu­ally devoid of signs. But hey, the…

  • Loiza, Luquillo, Fajardo, Oh My! by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 18, 2009, 10:55

    The East Coast of Puerto Rico.. I retraced the road back to my orig­i­nal start­ing point in San Juan, near the Howard John­son and the Coqui Inn. I took Avenue Bal­do­ri­oty de Cas­tro (High­way 26) out to the east side of the island,…

  • High Rez Map of Route Around the Island by: Roberto

    August 10, 2009, 04:04

    The map I cre­ated of my route around the island is now avail­able in high res­o­lu­tion from the ‘Maps of PR’ page.  Sim­ply scroll to the bot­tom of the page for the link.  You are wel­come to down-load and print it  for personal…

  • 2nd Week of Puerto Rico Travel Blog by: Roberto

    July 17, 2009, 17:43

    The Plan: The goal here, is to go east to Loiza,  then over to Fajardo via Rio Grande and Luquillo and Las Croabas.  Then spend one to two days at the El Yunque Pre­serve.  I also plan to get out to Mon­key Island too!  By the 5th…

• Cat­e­gory: Isla South Region, Puerto Rico  (31)

  The dry side of PR & home to Ponce, the islands 2nd largest city as well as Patil­las, Arroyo, Guayama, Cen­tral Aguirre, Sali­nas, Coamo, Santa Isabel, Juana Diaz, Guayanilla, Penue­las and Yauco

  • Video Part 2– 50th San Blas Marathon Run­ners by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 16, 2012, 13:05

    This final video is an edit of about 2 hours of run­ners down to 40 min­utes.  That 40 min­utes was com­pressed to fit in about 14 min­utes so the run­ners really scram­ble by. At 14 mins 17 secs it is still the longest one I’ve produced…

  • Video Part 1– Parade of 50th San Blas Marathon by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 12, 2012, 12:32

    Once I started edit­ing the video, I real­ized I had too much stuff. So I split it into two.  This first one is about the traf­fic and activ­ity near the 15th Kilo­me­ter mark on High­way 150, prior to the Marathon run.  8 min­utes, 29…

  • 50th San Blas Half Marathon of Coamo by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 8, 2012, 00:48

    The party of the decade!  Or… Why stay in San Juan when you can be here, the cen­ter of the Uni­verse? This was my 3rd San Blas Marathon. The 1st post in 2010 fea­tured a lot of pho­tos and a video of the run­ners going by from a…

  • Coamo’s Patron Saints Fes­ti­val 2012 by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 1, 2012, 18:28

    I took the oppor­tu­nity this year to check out the local ‘Fies­tas Patronales 2012′ on Sat­ur­day.  It was staged this year on the plaza of Coamo.  It’s a pre­lude to the San Blas Half Marathon, this com­ing week­end.  In fact, this will…

  • Christ­mas in Puerto Rico and Fire­works too by: Roberto

    Decem­ber 25, 2011, 20:16

    I’m not exag­ger­at­ing when I say the Sea­son starts the day after Thanks­giv­ing (Black Fri­day) and does not end until the day after Three Kings Day on Jan­u­ary 6th.  I have a small post I did about Black Fri­day too.. it’s as crazy…

  • Arroyo’s Tren del Sur– Train of the South by: Roberto

    Novem­ber 20, 2011, 21:31

    A Puerto Rican attrac­tion in need of res­ur­rec­tion.. Most printed travel guides speak of the ‘Tren del Sur’ in Arroyo as if it were only tem­porar­ily closed. It oper­ated 4 miles of track from 1984 to 2005 when it was shut down…

  • 153rd Ponce Car­naval 2011– Part 2 by: Roberto

    March 11, 2011, 17:25

    The ‘Bury­ing of the Sar­dine’, March 8th, 2011 and the con­clu­sion of ‘Car­naval Week’ in Puerto Rico. As reported in my last post– Car­naval in Ponce, this is a fan­tas­tic time to be in Latin Amer­ica. Great music, great food,…

  • 153rd Ponce Car­naval 2011– Part 1 of 2 by: Roberto

    March 9, 2011, 22:20

    ‘Car­ni­val Week’ (Carnaval/Spanish) is always the week before Ash Wednes­day. A tra­di­tion that dates back to Colo­nial Spain and it’s cel­e­brated through­out Mex­ico, Cen­tral and South Amer­ica as well as the Caribbean. A fan­tas­tic time…

  • Ghost Town of Aguirre Cen­tral Revis­ited by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 15, 2011, 18:16

    Another install­ment of PR’s Sugar Indus­try of years past. The San Juan Photo and Social Club decided to take a ‘guer­rilla’ run at the old sugar mill in Aguirre.  I could not pass that up!  We met the guys from San Juan at the…

  • 49th San Blas Marathon 2011 Run­ners Video by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 12, 2011, 09:36

    The last post of 3 for the San Blas Marathon of Coamo A video of run­ners from the 49th Annual San Blas Half Marathon of Coamo, Puerto Rico. Shot from up above the 15th Kilo­me­ter mark. I got about an hours worth of video before…

  • 49th San Blas Marathon Video, from the Route by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 11, 2011, 08:56

    This ‘From the Road’ video cov­ers the entire marathon route, the morn­ing before the race.  Shot from the roof of my SUV with a mod­i­fied VadoHD video­cam.  The orig­i­nal 1.75 hour trip was com­pressed into 11 min­utes and zips right…

  • The 49th San Blas Half Marathon of Coamo by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 9, 2011, 17:00

    The best excuse to party if there ever was one! I reported last year about the fact that Coamo’s San Blas Half Marathon was as much about the ‘party’ as it was about the ‘race’. I wanted to cap­ture that essence in this story. 10.…

  • A Ver­ti­cal Aquaponic Eco Farm­ing Project in PR by: Roberto

    Decem­ber 6, 2010, 09:03

    Or as I’ve nick-named it– “The Tryon Project”, after it’s cre­ator, Mr. Richard Tryon. I had the great priv­i­lege of meet­ing Mr. Tryon and his wife where he gave me (and me 1st Mate) the big tour and back-story of his Santa Isabel…

  • A Lit­tle Side Trip on the South Side by: Roberto

    Novem­ber 15, 2010, 20:33

    Or, Shop­ping in Ponce & the Slow Road Home The area along the south coast between Ponce and Sali­nas is very relaxed. Not many tourists make it out this way. High­way 1 mean­ders near the coast, some­times right up by the beach. If…

  • TROPIC VENTURES, A True Bor­in­quen Vibe by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 14, 2010, 08:27

    & Sus­tain­able Rain­for­est Enrich­ment Project I stum­bled onto the Tropic Ven­tures Web site while try­ing to track down local sources for live Bam­boo shoots. Bam­boo is great for con­trol­ling sur­face water ero­sion, but grows like a…

  • San Juan Photo & Social Club, Woohoo! by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 8, 2010, 08:53

    A ‘Meetup’ group made for folks like me Before I took off on my first trip to Puerto Rico, I looked online to see if there were any ‘Meetup’ groups there. If you are not famil­iar with them, they are sim­ply small groups or clubs of…

  • Arroyo, PR… ‘Pueblo Grato’ (Grate­ful Town) by: Roberto

    August 30, 2010, 08:36

    The Old Sugar Mills & Plan­ta­tions of PR, Part 3 As men­tioned in my 2 pre­vi­ous posts, the area in South East PR was home to the last Sug­ar­cane hacien­das (plan­ta­tions) and sugar mills. If Guayama was the epi­cen­ter of this…

  • Guayama, PR… ‘The City of Witches’ by: Roberto

    August 22, 2010, 21:00

    The Old Sugar Mills & Plan­ta­tions of PR, Part 2 As men­tioned in my last post, the area in South East PR was home to the last Sug­ar­cane hacien­das (plan­ta­tions) and sugar mills. This is evi­dent by the numer­ous red brick structures…

  • The Old Sugar Mills & Plan­ta­tions of PR, Part 1 by: Roberto

    August 10, 2010, 18:38

    One of my favorite photo sub­jects is ruins and old run-down indus­trial build­ings. Great sub­jects for fine art images. See­ing his­tory with my own eyes is just too cool. To that end, I plan to spend sev­eral posts cov­er­ing the sugar,…

  • Coamo Springs Resort of Puerto Rico by: Roberto

    May 19, 2010, 20:16

    Hotel Baños de Coamo en Puerto Rico Since mov­ing to Coamo last fall, I’ve been want­ing to check out Coamo’s only hotel.  This post is based on a quick 15 minute walk-through of the place. A review of user com­ments over at…

  • 48th Annual San Blas Marathon Video, 2010 by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 15, 2010, 09:16

    This is my short­est YouTube video to date… 5 min­utes, 14 sec­onds.  The first part was shot with a Sony Handy­cam DCR-SR45.  The last half was shot with the VadoHD firmly attached to a tele­phone pole at about 10 feet up. Since…

  • 48th Annual San Blas ‘Half’ Marathon of Coamo by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 11, 2010, 15:53

    A Grand Excuse to Party all Night, all Day and the Next Night too The very first ‘foot race’ of 3 miles was held in Feb­ru­ary of 1963 by its spon­sors, the Coamo Fra­ter­nity of Delta Phi Delta. It was con­ceived as a trib­ute to honor…

  • That Long Road to Hacienda Buena Vista by: Roberto

    Decem­ber 30, 2009, 17:10

    Here’s that promised ‘From the Road’ video to Hacienda Buena Vista, from Express­way 52 as if you were com­ing from San Juan.  If you are already in Ponce, then take High­way 123 North.  Its a straight shot, sort of.  As always, it…

  • The Long Road to Hacienda Buena Vista.. by: Roberto

    Decem­ber 19, 2009, 15:07

    Or how to get lost with­out really try­ing. I will say upfront, that it was worth the has­sles of track­ing this place down for a visit. For­tu­nately, we hit the road early or we would have missed the start of the ‘non-refundable tour’.…

  • Ponce, PR to Tibes Cer­e­mo­nial Cen­ter, “FTR” by: Roberto

    Decem­ber 17, 2009, 08:44

    A new ‘From The Road’ video shot with my cus­tomized Vado HD video­cam. Still work­ing the kinks out of upload­ing big files via my Puerto Rico Web Provider.  My first attempt failed. If you  look close, you can see the PONCE…

  • The Tibes Indige­nous Cer­e­mo­nial Cen­ter by: Roberto

    Decem­ber 7, 2009, 11:16

    A Most Excel­lent Side Trip, Out­side Ponce This is by far, one of the best main­tained visitor’s cen­ters I’ve been to on the island. The staff were very help­ful and cour­te­ous. Sev­eral spoke Eng­lish. Though com­mer­cial pho­tog­ra­phy is…

  • Coamo… Last Stop of a New Adven­ture by: Roberto

    Octo­ber 2, 2009, 13:58

    I spent a lot of time in and around Coamo check­ing out the local sit­u­a­tion, scor­ing a “cheap” ride and get­ting a sense of what Puerto Rico was really like.  Sure, I got stuck while try­ing to buy a car.  I’ve already explained…

  • Ponce.. Pearl of the South! by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 28, 2009, 20:05

    If you have a week or more to spend in Puerto Rico, then you must spend a cou­ple days of it here. I promise you will not regret it. I will be back to Ponce myself, to shoot more of the local color. Before I arrived in PR, I had…

  • On to Sali­nas, Cayey and Caguas by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 23, 2009, 09:32

    For this stretch of the trip the weather was real hit or miss. It did make for some dra­matic cloud shots. I attempted to shoot more ‘Road Trip Videos’, but I had to stop every time it started to rain.  I’ll try to back track to the…

  • High Rez Map of Route Around the Island by: Roberto

    August 10, 2009, 04:04

    The map I cre­ated of my route around the island is now avail­able in high res­o­lu­tion from the ‘Maps of PR’ page.  Sim­ply scroll to the bot­tom of the page for the link.  You are wel­come to down-load and print it  for personal…

  • 4th Week of Puerto Rico Blog  by: Roberto

    July 17, 2009, 18:31

    The Plan: I should be able to spend 2 to 3 days in Ponce check­ing out the islands 2nd largest city.  There are sev­eral muse­ums and his­tor­i­cal sites to see here.  Then I will pro­ceed from there, into the moun­tains to Santa Isabel, up…

• Cat­e­gory: Isla North Region, Puerto Rico  (5)

  Home of the rich and afflu­ent in Dorado, includ­ing Toa Alta, Vega Alta, Vega Baja, Man­ati, Florida, Barceloneta, Arecibo, Hatillo, Camuy, Que­bradil­las and Isabela.

  • Rio Camuy Cave Park of Puerto Rico by: Roberto

    June 20, 2011, 20:34

    A Top Ten Attrac­tion on the Isle of Par­adise I’ve made plenty of ref­er­ence to my list of ‘must-see’ places I did not get to on my first visit and yes, the Camuy Caves were one of them. This is another ‘mega-post’ fea­tur­ing lots of…

  • Back to Arecibo and Points West… by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 24, 2009, 23:03

    Because I’m run­ning short of time, weather issues and hav­ing to deal with car repairs, I’ve had to zip around the West and South West parts of the island. Yes, my front brake pads have to be replaced so I’m loos­ing more time. I will…

  • Arecibo Obser­va­tory– A side trip on a detour… by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 14, 2009, 18:19

    The Largest Radiote­le­scope on the Planet The group that runs the facil­ity is– The National Astro­nomic and Ionos­phere Cen­ter. That entity is admin­is­trated by the Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity. Fund­ing to run the exper­i­ments and main­tain the…

  • High Rez Map of Route Around the Island by: Roberto

    August 10, 2009, 04:04

    The map I cre­ated of my route around the island is now avail­able in high res­o­lu­tion from the ‘Maps of PR’ page.  Sim­ply scroll to the bot­tom of the page for the link.  You are wel­come to down-load and print it  for personal…

  • 3rd Week of Puerto Rico Travel Blog by: Roberto

    July 17, 2009, 18:05

    The Plan: I will try to cover all of the North shore and West end of the island in this week.  This will include side trips to the Arecibo Radio Dish and the Rio Camuy Caves.  I will spend time in Camuy, Isabela, Aguadilla, Rincon,…

• Cat­e­gory: Isla Moun­tain Cen­tral, Puerto Rico  (25)

  The Moun­tain Cen­tral Region is home to San Sebas­t­ian, Las Marias, Mar­i­cao, Lares, Que­brada, Utu­ado, Adjun­tas, Jayuya, Vil­lalba, Ciales, Moro­vis, Corozal, Oro­co­vis, Naran­jito, Com­e­rio, Bar­ran­quitas, Aib­nito, Aguas Bue­nas, Cidra, Cayey,…

  • El Yunque For­est.. A North­west Approach by: Roberto

    Decem­ber 14, 2011, 19:33

    Most folks visit the El Yunque US National For­est via a for­mal tour and I highly rec­om­mend that. I took the half-day tour from San Juan on my first visit. There are links to half day and day trips in the Side­bar. That was great, but…

  • The 42nd Indige­nous Fes­ti­val of Jayuya, PR by: Roberto

    Novem­ber 30, 2011, 22:49

    An event worth the trip, no mat­ter where you live. We were there on Sat­ur­day, but the fes­ti­val was spread across 4 days, end­ing on Sun­day. Activ­i­ties included a con­fer­ence ded­i­cated to La Flor de la Guasabara, light­ing of…

  • Jun­cos Meetup and Lunch on a Sunny Sat­ur­day by: Roberto

    Octo­ber 27, 2011, 16:14

    A few weeks back, the Pho­tog­ra­phy Enthu­si­asts Meetup Group (of San Juan, PR) made a run to Jun­cos. We all met at the Plaza and then pre­ceded to work our way around the down­town area, shoot­ing local color. I made the drive to…

  • Return to Jayuya, Tomato Fes­ti­val 2011 by: Roberto

    May 14, 2011, 18:19

    A Local Event with Vari­ety.. Weather was going to be an issue so we got an early start. The morn­ing was nice with only a few fluffy clouds to break up the blue. I will not cover the specifics of the trip up to Jayuya since I…

  • Palm Sun­day in Jayuya, Puerto Rico by: Roberto

    April 21, 2011, 13:23

    A Jewel, Deep in the Moun­tains of Puerto Rico I never cease to be amazed by what I find when I explore a new place. Yes, Jayuya was on my orig­i­nal itin­er­ary, but com­pli­ca­tions on that first trip pre­vented a visit. There is a lot…

  • Govard­han Gar­dens, Trop­i­cal Fruit and Bam­boo by: Roberto

    March 31, 2011, 19:08

    A trop­i­cal plant nurs­ery ded­i­cated to the con­cept of self-determination and self-sufficiency. This post is some­what off topic for a travel site, but like the Tryon Project, Tropic Ven­tures or the Mayagüez Trop­i­cal Ag. Sta­tion, I…

  • Las Marias Orange Fes­ti­val 2011 El Mundo by: Roberto

    March 24, 2011, 17:17

    The fresh sweet smell of oranges (chi­nas).. No kid­ding. Las Marías is way up in the moun­tains, due east of Mayaguez, not too far from Mar­i­cao on the west end of the island. We took the same route via Sabana Grande, we used to…

  • 2011 Puerto Rican Cof­fee Har­vest Way Down by: Roberto

    March 3, 2011, 16:09

    A fol­low up edi­to­r­ial to the Mar­i­cao Cof­fee Fes­ti­val of 2011 I ran across an arti­cle dated Feb. 24, 2011 in the Caribbean Busi­ness Weekly regard­ing the over­all decline of the Cof­fee Indus­try in Puerto Rico.  In the arti­cle they…

  • Mar­i­cao Cof­fee Fes­ti­val, The Moun­tains of PR by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 22, 2011, 21:57

    Cof­fee, My Sec­ond Most Favorite Drink! I found out about this local event 2 weeks after it ended last year. I had been look­ing for­ward to check­ing it out, ever since. I was not dis­ap­pointed! The Cof­fee Fes­ti­val runs for 3…

  • Corozal Plan­tain Fes­ti­val 2010 by: Roberto

    Octo­ber 31, 2010, 20:03

    .. And a civ­i­lized cock fight too! Ever since I dis­cov­ered they still ran cock fights in Puerto Rico, I’ve been want­ing to go see one.  It’s legal here.  In fact, its evi­dently the 10th largest indus­try on the island.  It is…

  • TROPIC VENTURES, A True Bor­in­quen Vibe by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 14, 2010, 08:27

    & Sus­tain­able Rain­for­est Enrich­ment Project I stum­bled onto the Tropic Ven­tures Web site while try­ing to track down local sources for live Bam­boo shoots. Bam­boo is great for con­trol­ling sur­face water ero­sion, but grows like a…

  • 49th Annual Arti­san Fair of Bar­ran­quitas by: Roberto

    July 24, 2010, 09:01

    The very best of hand made Puerto Rican art and craft I had a big break in the weather and made it out to Bar­ran­quitas on a Sun­day. It was a leisurely drive from Coamo, up into the moun­tains. From San Juan, take Hwy 52 south and…

  • 42nd Annual Aibonito Fes­ti­val of Flow­ers by: Roberto

    July 3, 2010, 22:52

    The best place to be on the 4th of July week­end I had been look­ing for­ward to this short trip for sev­eral months. Like the San Blas Marathon of Coamo, this event draws folks from all over the island. Like any event of this size,…

  • The Botan­i­cal and Cul­tural Gar­dens of Caguas by: Roberto

    May 8, 2010, 18:50

    Jardin Botan­ico y Cul­tural de Caguas This most beau­ti­ful, lush park cov­ers 60 acres. Another, much larger botan­i­cal gar­den is located in San Juan on the grounds of the Uni­ver­sity of Puerto Rico. There is a 3rd botan­i­cal garden…

  • Toro Negro.. a Sun­day Drive into the Moun­tains by: Roberto

    March 13, 2010, 12:08

    One of the most over­looked and under-reported areas of Puerto Rico is the Cen­tral Moun­tain Area. I’ve explored less than 10% of it at this point. There is plenty to see here. The vis­tas can be quite grand. I would describe it as…

  • From the Road: Degetau’s Rock to Coamo, Part 2 by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 3, 2010, 08:41

    Or as I like to call it– “The Aibonito Speed­way” Yes, this is the final chap­ter in the run up to the ‘Mirador Piedra Dege­tau’ and then back to Coamo.  You can see where I stopped and had a Pin­cho and beer before head­ing on…

  • From the Road: Coamo to Degetau’s Rock, Part 1 by: Roberto

    Jan­u­ary 31, 2010, 11:43

    As promised, here is Part One of the run from Coamo to the ‘Mirador Piedra Dege­tau’ located in Aibonito. It was fea­tured in a pre­vi­ous post. This is the first ‘From the Road’ video where I squashed it to dou­ble speed with iMovie…

  • QTVR Panorama from Degetau’s Over­look by: Roberto

    Jan­u­ary 28, 2010, 08:24

    After much trial and tribu­la­tion, I now have a decent Quick­Time VR Panorama posted for your enjoy­ment.  Use the menu bar above and take the link at the far right to the Quick­Time VR Page Page to view it.  If you don’t have Apple’s…

  • Degetau’s Obser­va­tion Stone.. a Panoramic View by: Roberto

    Jan­u­ary 11, 2010, 12:32

    For­mally known as– “Mirador Piedra Dege­tau”, this is a must see.  It’s free and is well worth check­ing out.  Located in Aibonito, its a key fea­ture of the ‘Ruta Panoram­ica’.  On a clear day, you may see Ponce and Cof­fin island…

  • Puerto Rico Video “From the Road #2″… by: Roberto

    Novem­ber 12, 2009, 15:37

    I was able to assem­ble one more “From the Road” video, before my depar­ture next week. This one was shot in the moun­tains, up above Coamo, in the Bar­rio Col­lores area of Juana Diaz. Very dif­fer­ent from the first video, but very…

  • On to Sali­nas, Cayey and Caguas by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 23, 2009, 09:32

    For this stretch of the trip the weather was real hit or miss. It did make for some dra­matic cloud shots. I attempted to shoot more ‘Road Trip Videos’, but I had to stop every time it started to rain.  I’ll try to back track to the…

  • El Yunque National For­est by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 3, 2009, 10:39

    The ONLY rain for­est in the US For­est Sys­tem I elected to do a reg­u­lar tour.. It solved the trans­porta­tion issue and gave me some insight into what the locals think. I choose E&B Tours.. I was picked up at my hotel in a…

  • High Rez Map of Route Around the Island by: Roberto

    August 10, 2009, 04:04

    The map I cre­ated of my route around the island is now avail­able in high res­o­lu­tion from the ‘Maps of PR’ page.  Sim­ply scroll to the bot­tom of the page for the link.  You are wel­come to down-load and print it  for personal…

  • 4th Week of Puerto Rico Blog  by: Roberto

    July 17, 2009, 18:31

    The Plan: I should be able to spend 2 to 3 days in Ponce check­ing out the islands 2nd largest city.  There are sev­eral muse­ums and his­tor­i­cal sites to see here.  Then I will pro­ceed from there, into the moun­tains to Santa Isabel, up…

  • 2nd Week of Puerto Rico Travel Blog by: Roberto

    July 17, 2009, 17:43

    The Plan: The goal here, is to go east to Loiza,  then over to Fajardo via Rio Grande and Luquillo and Las Croabas.  Then spend one to two days at the El Yunque Pre­serve.  I also plan to get out to Mon­key Island too!  By the 5th…

• Cat­e­gory: Puerto Rico Detours  (8)

  Puerto Rican activ­ity not cov­ered by other cat­e­gories. Things like Pirates, Puerto Rican Rum and non-travel related activity.

  • Merry Christ­mas One and All by: Roberto

    Decem­ber 24, 2011, 09:48

    This is a short post to wish every­one a Merry Christ­mas. I hope 2011 was as good to you as it was for us.  I know it’s been a hard year for many.  We look for­ward to the new year and all it brings. I’ll be adding a couple…

  • Puerto Rico Cof­fee Expo– Octo­ber 8th & 9th by: Roberto

    Octo­ber 5, 2011, 18:11

    This is a short heads-up about the Cof­fee Expo this com­ing week­end in San Juan.  I’ll be report­ing on the expe­ri­ence in a cou­ple weeks.  Did I men­tion it’s free? Details: Sec­ond annual event. Admis­sion is free.  Park­ing is …

  • Talk Like A Pirate Day, Revis­ited– ARRG! by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 18, 2011, 23:53

    This post is ded­i­cated to the one day each year when ye can strut around talk­ing like a pirate and not sound too stu­pid. Sep­tem­ber 19th. OK… ye might sound stu­pid any­way, but what the heck. I did a very exten­sive post on the…

  • Talk Like A Pirate Day.. Tomor­row, Sept 19th by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 17, 2010, 18:50

    Ye be an inso­lent sea dog to pass on this here spe­cial day.. WARNING: Mature Con­tent, not intended for folks under the legal drink’n age or self-righteous bilge rats. Ye be warned… ’Been plan’n this here trib­ute to “Pirates ‘n…

  • Good­bye, Adios, C U L8r, ALASKA! by: Roberto

    Novem­ber 16, 2009, 17:39

    16 Hours and Count­ing…  Puerto Rico, Here I Come! As stated pre­vi­ously, Alaska has been my home since I was a lit­tle kid.  There was plenty to explore and still is.  I won’t be back for some­time, but I will be back.  I leave…

  • Detours End.. Back on the Road! by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 16, 2009, 09:20

    Or.. how I sur­vived buy­ing a used car in PR I did finally score a used ride off Clasi­fi­ca­dos Online, but not with­out a lot of has­sle. Seri­ously, if you only have a week or two to look around, then bite the bul­let and pay the high…

  • The Great Coamo Detour by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 9, 2009, 20:22

    Side tracked and kicked back… I’ve been scop­ing out Clasi­fi­ca­dos Online look­ing for a cheap, depend­able ride to run around the island in. Plan ‘B’ was to sim­ply rent a car, but I wanted to see how buy­ing a vehi­cle worked…

  • The PR Detours Cat­e­gory… by: Roberto

    July 26, 2009, 17:47

    The PR Detours Cat­e­gory is reserved for any side-trips or changes I may make to my ‘planned’ route.  A few of you may have noticed, I did not include any of the smaller key PR islands– Cule­bra, Vieques, Mona or lit­tle Desecheo on…

• Cat­e­gory: The Dog’s Blog– How I did it  (8)

  Me tools, tech­niques and meth­ods used to pro­duce the the Survy Dog’s Word­Press Web­site and the con­tent that follows.

  • Web­site Look ‘n Feel– GUI Update V1.5 by: Roberto

    May 27, 2011, 01:30

    A very short post about the GUI (graph­i­cal user inter­face) test­ing I’ve been doing over the last few weeks. I’m now putting a pol­ish to it, but I think this is a nice update to the orig­i­nal site design I did back in Alaska. I’ve…

  • Maps, Maps and More Maps by: Roberto

    Novem­ber 4, 2010, 15:54

    The ‘Maps Page’ update is finally done.. Whew! I knew the day I posted my first PR map to the Web that it would even­tu­ally need cor­rec­tions. All of that work was done before ever leav­ing Alaska. It was a ‘best guess’ based on what I…

  • Site Updates: Cal­en­dar, Travel Tips & Site Map by: Roberto

    Octo­ber 7, 2010, 10:10

    The Menu Bar at the top now fea­tures a long winded col­lec­tion of ‘Travel Tips’ with lots of new images and obser­va­tions you’ll not find any­where else. I’ve also added a dynam­i­cally updat­ing Table of Contents/Site Map Page. This…

  • QTVR Panorama from Degetau’s Over­look by: Roberto

    Jan­u­ary 28, 2010, 08:24

    After much trial and tribu­la­tion, I now have a decent Quick­Time VR Panorama posted for your enjoy­ment.  Use the menu bar above and take the link at the far right to the Quick­Time VR Page Page to view it.  If you don’t have Apple’s…

  • Blog­ging, Word­Press, Artis­teer and Geek­S­peak by: Roberto

    August 15, 2009, 16:56

    This effort orig­i­nally started out as con­ven­tional HTML.  I designed and crafted a full set of inter­face graph­ics with ‘rollover’ fea­tures for all key cat­e­gories and sub-categories.  Then I would have assem­bled it in Adobe’s…

  • Puerto Rican Travel Guides.. 3 of 4 by: Roberto

    August 6, 2009, 18:55

    Over the course of last win­ter, I read these travel guides.  This is not an inclu­sive list.  They were cheap and newly pub­lished.  Of the Three, my favorite is… ’Let’s Go Puerto Rico’ ’Off the Beaten Path Puerto Rico’ was…

  • One Month and Count­ing by: Roberto

    July 29, 2009, 15:12

    This Blog site has matured quite nicely.  I’ll be able to post up the YouTube Intro­duc­tion I shot of myself (back on July 12th), in a few more days I sim­ply had to learn how to use Final­Cut Express before I could edit any of it.…

  • How I did it… My Mod­i­fied VadoHD by: Roberto

    July 21, 2009, 00:54

    There is one Mis­cel­lany Cat­e­gory to this Blog. From time to time, I will explain how I did a par­tic­u­lar shot and what gear was used to do it.  This applies equally to the meth­ods and tools used to build my site and any special…

• Cat­e­gory: Dog’s Intro with Video  (6)

  Things you should know about the Dog’s Blog with a video intro­duc­tion by the Scurvy Dog.

  • Good­bye, Adios, C U L8r, ALASKA! by: Roberto

    Novem­ber 16, 2009, 17:39

    16 Hours and Count­ing…  Puerto Rico, Here I Come! As stated pre­vi­ously, Alaska has been my home since I was a lit­tle kid.  There was plenty to explore and still is.  I won’t be back for some­time, but I will be back.  I leave…

  • I’m Leav’n on a Jet Plane, don’t know when I’ll.. by: Roberto

    August 22, 2009, 14:47

    Let the adven­ture begin (3 days and count­ing).. This will be my last post from Alaska.. the next one will be from San Juan.. late on Wednes­day, the 26th (if things go accord­ing to plan). I’ll spend 19 hours in tran­sit, cross 4…

  • The “Intro Bloop­ers” Reel by: Roberto

    August 18, 2009, 14:22

    Shoot­ing the “Intro Video” to my Blog was fun, but it did have its moments of frus­tra­tion.  It was my first.. there were mis­takes. For those of you not famil­iar with view­ing videos on the Inter­net, here’s a cou­ple of tips– If you…

  • Blog­ging, Word­Press, Artis­teer and Geek­S­peak by: Roberto

    August 15, 2009, 16:56

    This effort orig­i­nally started out as con­ven­tional HTML.  I designed and crafted a full set of inter­face graph­ics with ‘rollover’ fea­tures for all key cat­e­gories and sub-categories.  Then I would have assem­bled it in Adobe’s…

  • YouTube Intro Video.. Arrg! by: Roberto

    July 31, 2009, 16:16

    What a learn­ing curve… My first (ever) edited video and the only one I’ll do with me in front of the cam­era.  Shot with the Vado HD video cam­era.  This sequence was staged next to an old dilap­i­dated shed near my place in…

  • It’s Alive!!!! by: Roberto

    July 17, 2009, 02:09

    After much ado, my blog design is finally  fin­ished and now online.  It’s late and I’ll post more about my plans for this travel Blog very soon… Arrg!

• Cat­e­gory: Off the Charts, Des­ti­na­tions Out­side PR  (4)

  This will cover travel des­ti­na­tions out­side Puerto Rico like Alaska, Wash­ing­ton State, New York City and Las Vegas to name a few.

  • The Las Vegas Odyssey Con­tin­ues– Part 2 of 2 by: Roberto

    Jan­u­ary 18, 2011, 17:28

    A 21st Cen­tury amuse­ment park in the mid­dle of nowhere Yes, Las Vegas IS all about gam­bling, it still pays the bills. How­ever, it’s evolv­ing into an attrac­tion the whole fam­ily can enjoy. Some­thing for every­one. I do not…

  • LAS VEGAS, BABY! by: Roberto

    Jan­u­ary 16, 2011, 01:22

    A First-Timer in Vegas– Part 1 of 2 As men­tioned before, I will report on other unique travel des­ti­na­tions as they come up and Las Vegas, NV cer­tainly qual­i­fies. This desert town gets quite chilly at night.. the crisp, dry…

  • Site Update: Sooner than Later.. by: Roberto

    Decem­ber 23, 2010, 15:36

    The Scurvy Dog’s PR site WILL get moved After a failed first attempt, we reset the site back to it’s orig­i­nal server and will go at it again real soon.  So if you come here and we are not, you know why.  The move will allow us more…

  • Off the Charts.. Unique Des­ti­na­tions Out­side PR by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 28, 2010, 09:03

    Site Updates in the Works… The ‘Off the Charts’ Cat­e­gory will even­tu­ally fea­ture ‘Other Des­ti­na­tions’ ded­i­cated to Alaska, Hawaii, New York City and Seat­tle (among oth­ers).  A trip to the Domini­can Repub­lic is in the early…

• Cat­e­gory: Isla South­west Region, Puerto Rico  (6)

  The South­west region includes– Sabana Grande, Guanica, La Par­guera, Lajas, Cabo Rojo, San Ger­man, Puerto Real and the Dry For­est of Guanica along with access to Mona Island.

  • La Par­guera, a Lit­tle Jewel on the SW Coast by: Roberto

    August 17, 2011, 18:51

    As men­tioned in my last post, we made a quick dash through La Par­guera while check­ing out the area around Guánica. La Par­guera is most famous for its bio­lu­mi­nes­cent bays, fol­lowed by its seafood. Our plans pre­cluded stick­ing around…

  • Guánica, Kicked Back on a Sat­ur­day by: Roberto

    August 11, 2011, 21:58

    I had pre­vi­ously reported about the Dry For­est of Guánica, but did not make it into town.  Now I’m back to fill in some details. This IS by far the dri­est, hottest place on the island. It was a clear day in August so yes, it…

  • San Ger­man, Puerto Rico, the Real Deal by: Roberto

    June 20, 2010, 16:55

    His­tory pre­served for the 21st Cen­tury San Ger­man lies between Ponce and Mayaguez off Hwy 2 via Hwy 122. Its also in the South­west part of the island as men­tioned in my last post. San Ger­man (pro­nounced Her-mon) is commonly…

  • Cabo Rojo, Bosque de Boqueron & Puerto Real by: Roberto

    June 12, 2010, 14:07

    The Great Diver­sity that is South­west Puerto Rico Here’s a hot tip– Where do Puerto Ricans go on vaca­tion or a week­end trip?  Into the moun­tains to cool off or the gor­geous beaches on the south­west coast of the island. For good…

  • Lights in the Night Sky & the Unex­plained in PR by: Roberto

    June 6, 2010, 18:34

    A Short Ref­er­ence to the Bizarre Phe­nom­e­non in Puerto Rico There are sev­eral points I want to cover with this some­what off topic post. I do not ‘ask’ that you believe in ‘lit­tle green men’, the para­nor­mal, or any clandestine…

  • The Guánica Dry For­est Reserve by: Roberto

    April 30, 2010, 14:29

    Bosque Seco De Guánica, An Inter­na­tional Bios­phere. This des­ti­na­tion was on my orig­i­nal hit-list… The 10,000 acre Reserve is home to over 600 species of plants and ani­mals includ­ing 48 endan­gered species of which 16 are…

• Cat­e­gory: Isla North­east Region, Puerto Rico  (1)

  Home to Loisa, Canovanas, Rio Grande and Luquillo

  • Loiza, Luquillo, Fajardo, Oh My! by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 18, 2009, 10:55

    The East Coast of Puerto Rico.. I retraced the road back to my orig­i­nal start­ing point in San Juan, near the Howard John­son and the Coqui Inn. I took Avenue Bal­do­ri­oty de Cas­tro (High­way 26) out to the east side of the island,…

• Cat­e­gory: Liv’n Large in Puerto Rico  (15)

  Arti­cles and info about life in Puerto Rico. Think’n about retir­ing to PR? You’ll want to check out these stories.

  • Video Part 1– Parade of 50th San Blas Marathon by: Roberto

    Feb­ru­ary 12, 2012, 12:32

    Once I started edit­ing the video, I real­ized I had too much stuff. So I split it into two.  This first one is about the traf­fic and activ­ity near the 15th Kilo­me­ter mark on High­way 150, prior to the Marathon run.  8 min­utes, 29…

  • Talk Like A Pirate Day, Revis­ited– ARRG! by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 18, 2011, 23:53

    This post is ded­i­cated to the one day each year when ye can strut around talk­ing like a pirate and not sound too stu­pid. Sep­tem­ber 19th. OK… ye might sound stu­pid any­way, but what the heck. I did a very exten­sive post on the…

  • Liv­ing in Puerto Rico– Par­adise Tax Revis­ited by: Roberto

    May 22, 2011, 23:24

    This lit­tle rant is aimed at those who might con­sider retir­ing to Puerto Rico. I did, it’s not that bad. Really. Pesky tasks that demand your atten­tion– Among those– Replac­ing the leak­ing hot water tank in the pas­sive hot…

  • 5.4 Earth­quake, Cen­tral PR, Dec. 24th, 7:43PM by: Roberto

    Decem­ber 25, 2010, 13:22

    Being no stranger to earth­quakes.. I was some­what amused by the tremor we expe­ri­enced yes­ter­day. About the time I decided we should prob­a­bly go out­side, it started to wind down. Though it lasted for most of 5 min­utes, I could only…

  • Hur­ri­cane IGOR Skips Puerto Rico by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 20, 2010, 21:07

    Down­graded to Cat 1, as it Passes Bermuda When I told my friends in Alaska, I had decided to retire to Puerto Rico, they all thought I was crazy… “You’ll get maimed in a hur­ri­cane or lose every­thing you own”. I looked into all that…

  • The Dog’s Blog 1st Anniver­sary & Slide Show! by: Roberto

    July 17, 2010, 08:01

    Its been a year since this blog went pub­lic. In that time, I’ve put up 60+ posts, a dozen YouTube videos and one Quick­Time VR Panorama. The first 14 posts were from Alaska. My way of intro­duc­ing myself. Back then, I had no clue I…

  • A Fine Art Photographer’s Dream Come True by: Roberto

    March 8, 2010, 13:23

    Have Cam­era, Will Travel, With Due Dili­gence. This Post is for all you pho­tog­ra­phers out there. Pro or not. The photo oppor­tu­ni­ties on the isle of Puerto Rico are ripe and all around, no mat­ter what time of the year you visit.…

  • Real Estate and the Cost of Liv­ing in PR.. My 2¢ by: Roberto

    Jan­u­ary 21, 2010, 11:29

    In the end, it was an easy deci­sion to make… mov­ing to PR As it relates to gro­ceries and con­sum­ables, things are on a par cost-wise with most of the US. Espe­cially if you are used to shop­ping in places like Wal­mart, Sears or JC…

  • Fire­works in Puerto Rico, Oh My! by: Roberto

    Jan­u­ary 18, 2010, 09:59

    As had been pre­vi­ously stated, I have a long stand­ing inter­est with fire­works, both for fun and profit. This info is for my “PYRO” friends out there. The good news is, they do sell ‘fire­works’ on the island.  The bad news is, the…

  • Black Fri­day, Puerto Rico Style! by: Roberto

    Novem­ber 28, 2009, 14:32

    Or how I sur­vived the 6AM Crush at Wal­mart I had planned to score a new TV, once I got back to PR. I fig­ured “Black Fri­day” would be the best time to do it. I got to the Wal­mart near Coamo, right at 6AM. I’ve been to this particular…

  • Puerto Rico Ver­sion 2.0 by: Roberto

    Octo­ber 17, 2009, 20:46

    A New Chap­ter Begins! If I had not stated so pre­vi­ously, part of my motive for going to Puerto Rico was to see if I might like liv­ing there.  Hence the need to see the place dur­ing its worst.. Hur­ri­cane Sea­son.  The answer to…

  • Puerto Rican Eats.. by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 22, 2009, 18:59

    One of the things I wanted to check out was foods unique to PR. Admit­tedly, being in San Juan is not the way to do it. So to that end, I offer the fol­low­ing. Caribbean Munchies: Caribas brand chips are made from pro­duce popular…

  • Bev­er­ages Unique to Puerto Rico… by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 21, 2009, 21:47

    RUM… yumm! As I men­tioned ear­lier, my fav has always been a Cuba Libré. DonQ Cristal is a very clear, smooth Rum used in most mixed drinks. A true Puerto Rican Rum dis­tilled by the Ser­ralles fam­ily. Yes, a gen­uine Cuba Libré is…

  • Detours End.. Back on the Road! by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 16, 2009, 09:20

    Or.. how I sur­vived buy­ing a used car in PR I did finally score a used ride off Clasi­fi­ca­dos Online, but not with­out a lot of has­sle. Seri­ously, if you only have a week or two to look around, then bite the bul­let and pay the high…

  • The Great Coamo Detour by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 9, 2009, 20:22

    Side tracked and kicked back… I’ve been scop­ing out Clasi­fi­ca­dos Online look­ing for a cheap, depend­able ride to run around the island in. Plan ‘B’ was to sim­ply rent a car, but I wanted to see how buy­ing a vehi­cle worked…

• Cat­e­gory: Roberto’s X-files  (5)

  All the unusual and unex­plained in one place.

  • Talk Like A Pirate Day.. Tomor­row, Sept 19th by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 17, 2010, 18:50

    Ye be an inso­lent sea dog to pass on this here spe­cial day.. WARNING: Mature Con­tent, not intended for folks under the legal drink’n age or self-righteous bilge rats. Ye be warned… ’Been plan’n this here trib­ute to “Pirates ‘n…

  • Lights in the Night Sky & the Unex­plained in PR by: Roberto

    June 6, 2010, 18:34

    A Short Ref­er­ence to the Bizarre Phe­nom­e­non in Puerto Rico There are sev­eral points I want to cover with this some­what off topic post. I do not ‘ask’ that you believe in ‘lit­tle green men’, the para­nor­mal, or any clandestine…

  • Fire­works in Puerto Rico, Oh My! by: Roberto

    Jan­u­ary 18, 2010, 09:59

    As had been pre­vi­ously stated, I have a long stand­ing inter­est with fire­works, both for fun and profit. This info is for my “PYRO” friends out there. The good news is, they do sell ‘fire­works’ on the island.  The bad news is, the…

  • Arecibo Obser­va­tory– A side trip on a detour… by: Roberto

    Sep­tem­ber 14, 2009, 18:19

    The Largest Radiote­le­scope on the Planet The group that runs the facil­ity is– The National Astro­nomic and Ionos­phere Cen­ter. That entity is admin­is­trated by the Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity. Fund­ing to run the exper­i­ments and main­tain the…

  • The “Intro Bloop­ers” Reel by: Roberto

    August 18, 2009, 14:22

    Shoot­ing the “Intro Video” to my Blog was fun, but it did have its moments of frus­tra­tion.  It was my first.. there were mis­takes. For those of you not famil­iar with view­ing videos on the Inter­net, here’s a cou­ple of tips– If you…

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