Puerto Rico

I am now back from the LASA conference in Puerto Rico, and have come home to a mountain of work. San Juan was beautiful, especially the old part of the city, but it was incredibly expensive. I had just been in Paris, and San Juan even seemed pricey by comparison.

LASA now says it won't have another conference in the U.S. until the policy toward Cuban scholars changes. Rumors abounded about where it would go next--maybe Canada, which would be great, because I've never been to either Montreal or Toronto.