October 12, 2006
Vacations in New York City and Puerto Rico
I have two interesting articles for you today. The first is the author's experiencing finding a place to stay in Manhattan by using Craig's List. It took 4 days to find a place after emailing and calling lots of people. Sounds like more trouble than it's worth to me.
The second article is about the little town of Rio Grande on the northeastern tip in Puerto Rico. Rio Grande is a few miles from the El Yunque National Rain Forest a 30-minute drive from Old San Juan. San Juan is crowded with tourists but Rio Grande has quite a few natural attraction in addition to Texas Hold'em and spas.
If you like to keep active, how about golf, tennis, water sports, rainforest trekking, and kayaking?
(The author took a) two and a half hour kayak trip at night into the Laguna Grande, (think Jurassic Park)—one of nature’s most magnificent sights. The lagoon is filled with billions of one-celled organisms called dinoflagellates, which light up under the water. We kayaked in the pitch black and somehow lived to tell about....paddling into a lagoon filled with iguanas and giant, hanging vines that can take you down in the dark.Apparently there are some unique spa treatments as well. The Ionithermie Cellulite Reduction system "consists of lying on a pad of clay onto which electric probes are placed which deliver current into those nasty thigh lumps. The current contracts the muscles, doing for you what you should be doing for yourself at the gym." I'll just go to the gym please. Posted by James Trotta at October 12, 2006 3:15 AM | TrackBack
I too visited Rio Grande this past April. I had never been to PR before so I wasn't sure what to expect. That part of the island was very quiet. My family (husband and 2 kids 8 & 11) took a tour from our hotel (Westin Rio Mar) to the Rainforest. It was a lot of walking but we really enjoyed it. The paths at times were very narrow and slippery from being wet but the forest was beautiful!
Posted by: Cori at October 12, 2006 8:55 PM