Man, I just read through this entire thread, and I'm still not sure what I would do. If it was just me and a surf buddy...maybe. Certainly not with a family. But I don't think I'm up for the kind of adventure a trip to PR right now would promise. I've traveled a bit to surf, but this sounds like it's way out of my comfort zone. Some great info in this thread, though. At least whatever decision the OP makes it will be informed.
Thanks for the great info. Hopefully we can update here as PR progresses and gets back to some sort of normal. United canceling the daily flights tells me to its time to look somewhere else this year. Tough to accept but I hear Barbados is not a bad back up so looking into traveling there.
Barbados should be nice. But consider this---given that no tourists will travel to PR, Virgin Islands, Tortola etc, Dominica, St Martins, etc....where do you think all them tourists want to go?? Barbados is a major choice now--very crowded and very expensive. Truth be told, this winter, Central America, or even Hawaii would be a better choice. just opinion.
i've been checking that aurasurf.com website a lil more on the regular, thanks to StuckOnTheGulf for reminding me of that site. still got PR on the mind, and i think with no family alongside it'd be a good rogue trip in three to four months. I (optimistic as usual) think there will be some good progress by then for NW PR with electricity n water
Good point. I am also looking at renting a RV and traveling the CA coastline for a week or staying with a buddy in Jaco but Ive done CR a few times.
They will recover; they just need more time than what a bunch of us spoiled surfers want to give them. Next winter they will be up and running in full regalia!! Keep in mind, the island did not get hurt, only the human garbage got sacked (outside of the trees etc). The reefs are still there, and the ocean will provide swells well after you and I are long gone. As I have said before, the Earth did not anticipate our coming, it does not know we are here and will not care when we disappear..... But my December trip to PR, I cancelled. I might revisit the PR thing in March.
Yes... the reefs will still be there. But when the Reconstruction Era begins in the Caribbean, it will be a "bigger, better deal" and draw more tourists... 'cause everything will be shiny and new. Out with the old and in with the new, as investors will take the opportunity to chase tourist dollars and make their financial dreams come true. I predict it will begin the gentrification of the Caribbean... and I hope I'm dead wrong.
As was South Miami, it will be paid for by cocaine and heroin. And that because the USA does not want to pay for it, and, they have not helped the PR State Police with their interdiction of drug smuggling. In fact, after being repeatedly requested for help, the Homeland Security, under Obama, refused to give them any help whatsoever--they don't vote in our elections....... Right now, with all the turbulence in PR, I can assure you the drug cartels are setting up new and better channels of distribution from PR to the mainland USA, via construction companies the PR government gives contracts to. Betcha!!
The cartels arrived weeks ago, even before FEMA. Lotsa junkies in San Juan that need fixes. That is a crisis the govt of PR would not be able to handle. PR is officially the new "transit hub" of drugs in the Caribbean bound for the US mainland, replacing the DR. Only difference is that the drugs only passed through the DR. Lots of the drugs passing through PR will stay there. If you thought PR had a hard drug problem before, you ain't seen nothin yet!
Come help us help help help. So we can go back to our corrupt, lazy, criminal ways.... Give me a break
Ahh yes indeed but PR has way better swell potential.. MY bud who lives on Ramey Base said he surfed Wildo 2 Yesterdays ago head high + with 4 guys in the water.. I'm shooting for Feb.. need electric or it's a no go.
Must be talking about any cesspool city in this country governed by your liberal leaders for the past 50 years.
From Nixon onward, 28 of the last 50 or so years have been Republican administrations, so there's that. Blaming liberals or conservatives for all the ills of society is a cop out at best.
