I ate my way across Puerto Rico and all I got was a larger pant size. I asked some of my Puerto Rican friends what things I definetly needed to see on vacation and my friend Laly told me to stop at every roadside stand I passed, because they had the best food.
Well, of course, I was appalled because in my mind there was no way that a roadside stand was going to be sanitary. But OH, GOD DAMN, do they have awesome food (and most of them were sanitary). Plus, I am a big believer in getting the complete native experience when I visit a new country. I have fallen in love with alcapurria, bacalitos, tostones and plantain in any form.
Puerto Rico is an amazingly beautiful country with a rich history. I have visited the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Bahamas and Barbados. They are all beautiful, but as soon as you leave the resort/ tourist section of town and you see how poor the population is and how far apart the division of the classes is it’s just appalling. Puerto Rico was not like that at all. Besides being safe and clean it has a very large and very diverse middle class.
We do plan on going back because there were so many things that we wanted to see and do and 1 week wasn’t enough. I could honestly spend a week just hiking through the Carribean National Rain Forest.
On an unrelated note the downside of taking your brother on vacation with you is that afterward you tend to end all of your sentences with some derivative of the word bitch. Also, he is now describing his tan as “blackalicous”, my tan as “slightly tan-not-licious” and Mr. Little Man as “white” (hey, we used a lot of SPF 60).
What I am reading : The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
What I am listening to: Eels - I Am Going To Stop Pretending That I Did Not Break Your Heart
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