Amateur Traveler episode 826. Today the amateur traveler talks about

beaches and violuminescence and Borike history and hurricanes, rainforest and rum.

As we go to the island of Puerto Rico.

This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler.

Let's talk about Puerto Rico.

I'd like to welcome the show Jessica from dining traveler.com who's come to talk to us

about Puerto Rico. Jessica welcome to the show. Thank you for having me Chris.

I wanted to do a show on Puerto Rico, and everybody kept asking me when the show

is going to come out because many of the people who follow me on social media

know that I was just in Puerto Rico, because I thought it would be really good

to go down for a hurricane which wasn't my

original plans but I didn't get out of San Juan and so there was no way I was going to do a show

without someone who knew this country better than me.

What's your connection with Puerto Rico?

So I grew up in Puerto Rico in a town called Guayama, which is in the southern coast of the island.

Literally, if you get on the highway from San Juan, straight south, you end up in my hometown. And I moved to the mainland for high school, but I've always had that link to Puerto Rico with my family, friends.

So I travel there often.

During my college years, I moved to Puerto Rico for a bit, and it's just my happy place.

Like after all these years, it's just that place I love to go back to and my home.

Excellent. And why should someone go to Puerto Rico?

So one of the things that I love about Puerto Rico and I think that's something that even Puerto Ricans have in our DNA is, it's so mixed, there's so much versatility there for the size. It's 110 miles long and 35 miles wide. And in that you have all these

microclimates, you have the rainforest in Junke, you have a dry forest in Guanica, you have this range of mountains that goes east to west that are just

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