I sent Britton this link about Puerto Rico. I signed up for electronic updates about Puerto Rico from the New York Times so I occasionally see something in there about PR.  I thought Britton summed it up perfectly well with his comment:

I couldn’t even scrape the frost off my windshield this morning.  The -4 degree temperature seems to make a super bond with the frost and the glass.  It was worse than the blue countertops!

Whiskey and fresh coconut water in the warmth of PR sounds good about now.  So does live salsa and alcapurrias.

Sometimes I think maybe people think we are escapists. Well, I am reading a new book called Getting Stoned with Savages about a young couple who move to and live in the South Pacific and I thought his sentiments exactly:

“I have been called many things in my life but if there has been one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American….Escapism, we are to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperment, and like so many -isms, is to be strenuously avoided.  How do you expect to get ahead? people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn’t want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away. I understand this, for I am an unapologetic escapist.”

-From Getting Stoned with Savages by J. Maarten Troost

We may be escapists but we can’t wait for our Puerto Rico dream to come true.