If you are a smoker in Puerto Rico there are not many brands of cigarettes that you can buy (I stopped smoking in September). Pretty much your only choices are Marlboro for regular cigs or Kool if you smoke menthols. I did find a few places that you could buy Camel Turkish Gold (which was my brand of choice in the… Continue reading

I am probably a little late in posting this for all of the Spring Breakers, but I recently receive in an email asking me what the legal drinking age is.

The legal drinking age in Puerto Rico is 18.  I don’t think the age is enforced though.  I am not saying it never happens, but I have never even seen anyone be carded here. … Continue reading

Did you know that you do not need prescriptions for the majority of medicines in Puerto Rico? I believe the only drugs that you have to have a prescription for is ‘scheduled drugs‘. It took me almost a year of living in PR to discover this.

Late one Friday, I had thrown my neck out and couldn’t move it to one… Continue reading

With my girlfriend cooking all of the time, I noticed that Puerto Rico mainly just sells brown eggs at the grocery stores.  In the States (or where I am from), I mostly just see white eggs.  Does it matter?  I got curious to see if there was a difference.  A quick search on Google took me to a Yahoo page explaining that… Continue reading

~ photo by DanAllison

Being a white guy from the States I don’t think I have ever really understood prejudice and racism like a Hispanic or Black guy has.  So it has been a little strange for me to live in Puerto Rico where there is some prejudice going on.  I don’t know if it is because I am white… Continue reading

I just finished reading how Stefan thinks he might have caught Dengue. I understand his view on doctors and being sick. Whenever I get sick, I am usually the same. I will just let my body heal.

Dengue has flu like symptoms so it can be hard to diagnose and is usually transfered from mosquitos. The problem… Continue reading