La Isla Bonita: An Excursion to Puerto Rico
Ever since my wife and I started dating back in (yikes) 2014, she's been regaling me with stories of Puerto Rico's loveliness. Oh, we simply must go there, she would say, in a voice that my brain remembers as being far more countess-sounding than it actually was. But, to incorrectly paraphrase Dr. Ian Malcolm: life, uh, gets in the way . Recently though, we were presented with a truly unique motivation to finally pay Sheila's homeland a long-overdue visit: her grandmother's 100th birthday party. And thus began, at long last, our voyage to the island of enchantment. Into the Groove Purely by happenstance, before this whole Puerto Rico trip was even proposed, we had a smaller vacation planned in early March. Nine Inch Nails was playing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and, having not seen them live since George W. Bush was in office, the time seemed right to take a musically-themed mini vacation. And it was indeed that, though I could not have predicted the exact natur...