Last week, I had the chance to go on vacation, spend the week with my family and go to my cousin’s wedding. At first I was a little skeptic about making the trip with everything that has been going on with ICE and the whole Latino community. I know my rights and being Puerto Rican … Continue reading Congratulations to the Bride and Groom
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In October 2024, one year ago, I joined Freddy’s Runners and throughout the year I have been running four times a week. All this time, I have gotten used to running outside, usually at the track or promenade. Last week, however, I had to change that a little. I was on vacation and couldn’t go … Continue reading Running on vacation
The week after my 10 mile race, I was on vacation with my family. I had planned to run a little during my vacation, maybe running at the beach, which I love. This time, however, it wasn’t so much fun. Turns out, it’s not fun to run at every beach. As beautiful as that beach … Continue reading Family Vacation and Preparing for the Next Big Race
As our vacation started to come to an end, we still had a few things to see, so on our last day started walking again. First on the list was a place called Little Island. I had no idea what it was, except that is was small island, but it’s the cutest park with a … Continue reading New York City Day 10: Little Island, High Line, Chelsea Market, The Vessel, Little Spain, Hudson Yards
Our ninth day in New York City was a girl’s day, it was just me and my mom exploring the city today. Our first destination that morning was to the M&M store. It’s just a really cute store and while we were there we had a look around Time Square and a few more stores … Continue reading New York City Day 9: M&M Store, Time Square, Columbus Day Parade, United Nations
I know what everyone is thinking, but I have family in New Jersey so on day six of our vacation we went to Penn Station and got on the train to New Jersey for the weekend. It was a quiet trip, there weren’t a lot of people on it when we got on, and pretty … Continue reading New York City Days 6-8: New Jersey
On our fifth day in New York City we had to see another one of New York City’s history landmarks, Grand Central Terminal. When I first walked in, it took me a second to realize what I was looking at because there was so much going on around me. This place is huge so it … Continue reading New York City Day Five: Grand Central Station, Summit One Vanderbilt
On our fourth day, we went to the place that you absolutely can’t miss on your visit to New York, The Statue of Liberty. I had already been there the first time I went to New York City when I was little, but I barely remember that. This time, I payed close attention to what … Continue reading New York City Day Four: Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall Street
When you are on a two week vacation to New York City, you can visit a different museum everyday and you still won’t run out of museums On our third day, we visited another museum. This time it was the MOMA or Museum of Modern Art. I had no idea what to expect to see … Continue reading New York City Day Three: MOMA, Broadway
On our second day in New York City, we had reservations at 11:00 am that the Museum of Natural History. It was a long walk to the museum and we didn’t know if we would be there in time for our reservation. We didn’t know if there would be any penalty or anything if we … Continue reading New York City Day Two: Museum of Natural History, Central Park
I just got home from a two week vacation in New York City, where I had the best time. I didn’t relax, because I don’t think it’s possible to relax in the city that never sleeps, but I had so much fun. I saw so much of the city, places I had never seen the … Continue reading New York City Day One: Brooklyn
Yesterday I got back from a short trip to Chicago. This was my first trip there and I had no idea what to expect, I mean I had heard great things about it but every city I have been to is very different. I was surprised by how clean and easy to get around it … Continue reading My first visit to Chicago
Last night I got back from Boston, where I went for the last few days of my vacation, after being in New York City. I enjoyed the drive to Boston because I got to rest from all the walking we did in the city. Our stay there was also a lot more relaxed and quiet … Continue reading Christmas Vacation 2022
Since the beginning of the year I’ve wanted to go on vacation to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of my TBI. We tried to planning many different things but finally landed on a trip to Florida to visit my aunt, go to Disney, Kennedy Space Center and Saint Augustine. I wanted to go to Disney … Continue reading My 10 year TBI survivor celebration!
For a short spring break, I went away with my parents to the beach for the weekend, since it was a long weekend. I didn’t know what to expect because the beach is always very crowded during Easter weekend but I thought maybe this year would be different because of COVID. It was very crowded … Continue reading Spring break 2021
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