Which are the general steps to become a tourist in your homeland? First, you must wake up early. Second, you should prepare a backpack with snacks, towels, and additional clothes (in case you are thinking to go to the beach). Third, get up in the car and LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN! (Don't forget to establish a budget!)
Keeping this steps in mind, I decided to go with my family to the southwest of the island. We wake up early today and we prepare the stuff we need for the trip (snacks such as Frito Lay's bags, beverages, and homemade sandwiches and backpacks with clothes, towels, shoes, etc.). We get up in our car and took the Road #2 until Road #100 to finally arrived to Cabo Rojo. We ate "pastelillos de queso, pastelillos de chapín and alcapurrias" at a kiosk near the roadside. They were delicious. We continued our trip until we arrived to Playa Sucia, but we can't get off the car because it was full and my mom didn't want to park the car too far from it. Nonetheless, we saw the Cabo Rojo's salt flats best known in Spanish as "las salinas".
Therefore, we decided to go to Boquerón beach and we had a great time together. The day was awesome, the weather was perfect, and we were really satisfied. After we set up our spot in the beach, we stayed a couple of hours in the water. The sun was at its peak, the water was good, and the sand was very hot. While I was in the water, I had the opportunity to analyze the environment which it was very calm and clean. The beach is a great natural scenery in which we can search for answers to our internal journey while we are having fun with our external journey. Keeping in mind that we had to pretend we were tourists, we felt a little bit out-grouped by the other Puerto Ricans at the beach, but we also felt in-grouped when we saw a couple of American tourists near us. I can't elaborate more on this topic because we didn't have the opportunity to talked with the locals nor the other tourists. My perspective toward the Puerto Ricans didn't changed at all because I had already seen that kind of exclusion or out-group by the locals to the tourists. Probably, the reason could be because of the English language.
Every adventure comes to an end... We decide to leave the beach around 5:00 p.m. We got up again in our car and finally went back to our home. I must say that being a tourist for a day is one of the best experiences I ever had in my life. We have to be thankful for all the wonderful places we have in our island. Sometimes we, as locals, do not appreciate all the marvelous places Puerto Rico offers to everyone and we need to be a tourist for a day to enjoy it.
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| Road #2 |
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| Near Cabo Rojo |
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| Only a few minutes to Playa Sucia |
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| On our way to Playa Sucia |
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| Part of the Cabo Rojo's salt flats |
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| Having fun at Boquerón beach with my siblings |
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| Boquerón beach Time to say good bye... |
Beautiful pictures! I love how you gave instructions on how to become a tourists. This is very true, because it's really hard to feel like a tourist in your own home. I hope you had fun on the beach :)
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