I was last there in 2010, pre-hurricane. Loved it. Though my hands down favorite spot was Flamenco Beach on Culebra—heaven.
I had a nice day in Isla Verde Puerto Rico. Its where I first lived when I moved to Puerto Rico. I was so cheap back then hoarding sats and accumulating as much as I could. I bought a bike in the bike shop across the street and went the first year without a car. That was easily the best shape I have ever been in. I lucked out with the timing of saving/ accumulating sats aggresively. The price pumped hard the next year and the sats paid for a car. Puerto Rico has tax benefits for people that move here that excempt you from capital gains taxes which is nice. I have gotten soft though. The younger me would of sold the car during the bear market and got more cheap sats. Hat tip to all those hungry sat stackers this bear market. Your sacrifices are going pay off in the upcoming years just be sure to have a game plan so your life actually improves and you actually live life. God bless.
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Culebra is beautiful. I was in Isla Verde for Hurricane Maria which was a category 5. My neighbors couch from the 10th floor was in the pool it was wild. My apartment had 2inches of water. Looked like a nuke bomb went off next day walking around. Cash was king in this environment nothing worked. I got taste of doomsday scenario lol. Took me like 10 days to get out of the island. Was not many flights out. Some people didn't have electricity for a year. Island is still recovering from it and it was 6 years ago.
Wow!!
No electricity for a whole year!
Yea I couldn't imagine. My area was a tourist location so we got power back first but still took 1-2 months after and was unreliable for a year basically before it was consistently okay. A lot of the population on the island are elderly people who lived in a time with limited electricity they all survived better then my soft privledged self. I had a 75 year old neighbor down the hallway who was 90% blind lived on his own and was cooking steaks two days after the storm with his little gas stove . He was a prepper learned some things from him. One cool thing I remember about no electricity was I met more people that next day after the storm then I did one full year of living in that building. People just live in their pods. When there is no electricity there was actually some community where people were out interacting and helping each other out. I saw a lot of good. Gave me some hope for humanity.
Wow, thank you so much for sharing this.
"Soft privileged self" 😄😄
That's heartwarming to see ppl come together.
And yes, gonna be more ready. I need to get on that as well.