#Vieques

[vintagecamping]

Some excellent fishing off Vieques Island

Puerto Rico

1972

[somewhereeinnneverrlandd]

Vieques, PR

[bloodyandmary]

Sunset in my third world country looking street. Yet it's so majestic for some reason.

Hahaha, dog.

[nawneee]

I hate tourists.

I hate tourists. Call me toxic all you want, but I hate them with a burning passion. They're nothing but a reminder that my land is a playground to them. My history is just a story to them. My culture is for them to appropriate. My people are slaves to them. My people are targets to them. Vieques was used as bombing practice for 63 years, and I didn’t know. We had a god named Atabey, the mother of our land, whom we loved, and I didn't know. Christ was the only “god” I knew. Our homes are nothing but hills to be plowed so the Americans can come and build their resorts upon the corpses and memories of our people. To them, we are just a vacation destination. We are a place for them to get drunk and party their cares away. But we can't party, we're stuck living here in the crisis they created. “Come on down to Puerto Rico: La Isla Del Encanto! Or did you think that was Colombia, thanks to Disney? You won't care either way when your blood is pumped full of bacardi! Since you love it so much, why not just move here? Look, one of our locals just moved out to the states, why don't you take their home?” May you drown in the resort pools. May you be cut by our reefs. May you be burned by our sun. May you be beaten by our people. Whenever tourists enter my bar, all I can see are colonizers, the erasure of my people, the erasure of who I am. Of who we are. They do not see my people, all they see is their next vacation.

I hate tourists.

[wanderingrizos]

📍 Puerto Rico in December (2024)

(Old San Juan, Vieques Island, Arecibo & Aguadilla)

[lavitabuonaedolce]

Rompeolas, Vieques, Puerto Rico

[illalmusalliin]

#9. Borikén

Now, onto my paternal homeland: Puerto Rico -> Borinquen -> Borikén--as the native Taínos called it before being systematically and brutally wiped out by Christopher Columbus and gang.

On the scanned, "official" sheet we don't have many street names. I actually named most of the streets after scanning the sheet. I was too eager to scan everything I had at that point--which was stupid because it was expensive.

Anyway, Puerto Rico comprises of 78 municipalities. I tried to add each one to this sheet. San Juan is already included in the Centrum and Latinoamérica neighborhoods. Mayagüez is also included in the Centrum neighborhood. We have streets and parks named after places in Puerto Rico such as Calle Carolina, Calle Bayamón, Parque Juana Díaz, Parque El Yunque (the island's rainforest!), Calle Aguas Buenas, Parque Cayey, Calle Caguas, and many more!

Since I didn't name any streets before I scanned the sheet, I've included the close-ups here on this post! Next post: Bus and Metro systems for this sheet.

[raw1111official]

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[corrupcionenpr]

[elijones94]

🇵🇷 Wild horses were everywhere! 🐎

[wuattier]

Military base, Puerto Rico

[uh-radical]

the caribbean doesn't need to be edited...i love it here so much. I feel like myself🥺

[postcard-from-the-past]

Fishing boats and Antilles Airboat's commuter seaplane at Vieques island, Puerto Rico

American vintage postcard, mailed in 1971 to France

[bloodyandmary]

Backyard view.

[skyflowers]

sunsetting vieques

[scifigirl]

I am the horse in your yard

drunk on wild mangoes

fermented in the July sun

And honey you have no horse