Places I’d Rather Be Right Now: Puerto Rico

By Mike • February 14, 2007 • 4 comments

New York City has been brutally cold of late, with temperatures well south of the freezing mark. Adding insult to injury, our first significant snowfall of the year just started falling. Were I smart, I’d have taken the Core Team somewhere tropical to while away the winter months, somewhere like Puerto Rico where the January average temperature sits in that sweet spot between 70 and 83 degrees.

Sara and I visited Puerto Rico in November 2004. Though a friend’s wedding prompted our whirlwind trip, we enjoyed as much of the flora and fauna as we could absorb in less than 48 hours.

We started out by examining the urban ecology of the island’s resort district, Isla Verde.

Zenaida Dove

Next, we endured a harsh education in just how wet a rainforest could get at El Yunque Caribbean National Forest.

El Mina

Finally, we took in the abundant charms of Old San Juan.

Pelican in Puerto Rico

Man, I’d love to be in Puerto Rico right now…

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Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird, Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network.

4 Responses to “Places I’d Rather Be Right Now: Puerto Rico”

Jochen Feb 14th, 2007 at 9:24 pm

No comment but this:

current temperature in Ann Arbor: 15 degrees, with winchill: -1 degrees.
BirdAdvocate Feb 14th, 2007 at 11:09 pm

Ha ha ha ha ha! Well, come down to Galveston County, Texas. It’s closer than Puerto Rico and we have lots of birds.
Mike Feb 15th, 2007 at 12:17 am

Believe me, BirdAdvocate, I’d love to come down there. Too bad my local airports are snowed in!

Jochen, the fact that you chose to move to Ann Arbor makes me wonder how bad winter is where you used to live.
Jochen Feb 15th, 2007 at 9:59 pm

Well, bad, really bad, but not THAT bad…

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