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RTW2007: Puerto Rico

jani — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:45:29 -0700

I spent a week in Puerto Rico for the First Annual Wikitravel Get-Together, and you can read all about it, from multiple angles like the refractions of a prism, right here: Get-together07

And here's a pointer to the one extended story I wrote myself, on the delights of public transportation on the island: Poco loco publico. (Don't worry, it's a little more exciting than it sounds. I promise.)

Wild Vieques

Sapphire — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:52:19 -0700

After managing to catch a couple of publicos from Ponce to Fajardo I arrived at the ferry station in Fajardo around 11:00. I had intended on shipping myself off to the exotic, and much touted Culebra, which according to Puerto Ricans was paradise, but the next ferry to Culebra left at 15:00. There was, however, a ferry to Vieques at 13:00.

It's all starting to blurr together...

maj — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:16:37 -0700

There's that day, usually about half-way into a vacation (preferably to a tropical island with friends), when you stop thinking of the First Day or the Third Day or Four-Days-Until-I-Go-Home and just think about "today." I seemed to have reached that point, because I'm having a really hard time sorting out which day was which great beach or fantastic meal. I'm sure I have everyone's sympathy...

Around the island in 8 days

evan — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:23:38 -0700

We've had some pretty intense driving around rural Puerto Rico in the last two days. Tuesday morning we hit the road westward from Ponce to San Germán, a small inland colonial-era city known for its architecture. It was a nice place to stop -- we took some good pictures and walked around the towns two plazas. But the unbearable Puerto Rican tendency towards traffic jams made the visit barely worth the trouble. We were glad when we got on the road again, south towards Parguera.

Poco loco público

jani — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:12:54 -0700

This little island's got a lot of things going for it, but public transport ain't one of them.

My mission, should I choose to accept it, was to make my way from Ponce, Puerto Rico's second-largest city (pop. ~200,000), to San Juan, its largest (pop. ~2 million). One might assume this would be easy; one would be wrong.

Get-together Day 4: Ponce & beyond!

maj — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:18:58 -0700

Arecibo ObservatoryWow, we've been going all out the last couple of days-- Yesterday we went from San Juan, over the hills and through the jungle to Arecibo and then over the jungle and through the hills to Ponce on the amazingly dry (as in dying cactus dry) Southern coast.

Wake up call

Sapphire — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:32:38 -0700

Yesterday, I asked the receptionist at the Hotel Melia about publicos and how to get to Fajardo. He promised to have the guy during the morning shift give them a call and reserve a place for me. He asked me "When do you want to go" and I told him no later than six. The reasoning for that was so I could catch a ferry out to Culebra. Unfortunately, I reverted to civilian time, rather than say 18:00 so I think he confused 6 PM for 6 AM.

If it's Tuesday, this must be Ponce

evan — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:01:25 -0700

I'm in the extremely pleasant balcony hallway of the awesome Hotel Melia in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Everyone's getting ready to go for a trip to the west of the island, so I thought I'd take a few moments to blog about the last few days.

Get-together Day 2: Old San Juan, beaches & mufungo

maj — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:19:05 -0700

This morning we tried to get an early start to cram as much in as possible. We started with another envigorating breakfast for sugared cereal and industrial coffee and grabbed a taxi into the Old City to check out the other amazing old fort overlooking the sea.

Get-together Day 1: Beach & Old San Juan

maj — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:47:27 -0700

Amita and Evan on Condado BeachI slept pretty good last night, despite the fact that the three of us (Evan, Amita June,