Dracula's Curse: On Vacation 1999 (whipped up in 3 minutes or less or contains thought-out design)

This is your obligatory photo gallery of some kid's 1999 Puerto Rico trip, with the equally obligatory photo captions. Perhaps I'll get around to a more detailed description of the trip later. Endure. Shoutout to Joey V., our official PR-based CastleVania secrets analyst!

These guys are what I used in the 2 VHS-C spectaculars I put WAY too much effort into. Final total running time of Jurassic Park X, about 2 hours and 2 VHS-Cs. Before X, I also did Jurassic Park 8, a recap of the previous 7, and the 9th, GERACIC PARK PROTOTYPE, was done in the summer of 1998 a year prior. See site update backfiles of that time period for more info. Do you know any of these guys? CHECK OUT!!! Evangelion Unit 5 with Lance of Longinus, the Star Wars ATST walkers I love so much, ID4 Alien, Queen Alien and minions, Randy the Rooster and his Cheek Laser series, GOLDBERG!!!, KEVIN NASH!!!, Ripley in her Power Loader, Primal Rage's Talon, and dozens more you can't make out since this evening-shot photo is THAT good...

A hurricane had ripped through the island before I arrived, and Puerto Rico had begun to repair herself. You couldn't fathom my disappointment from the lack of greenery I faced when I first looked over the backyard. Not only was it less to work with in JP8 and X, but it was just...stripped. Anyway, this is part of a panoramic mosaic of the big backyard behind grammy's house. The ground looks sorta dead because of the hot sun, she claimed; however, I couldn't help but notice the fragrance of ant killer last sensed in Caguas in late 1992, let alone the hurricane.

This trip also marks Mom's last return to Puerto Rico since 1995. Here she is speeding us into pueblo. Note "The Devil's Pawprint" (just below the center and with a telephone pole blocking it), a 'three-toed-shaped' land formation (which had become BROWN from GREEN). In 1994, I came up with a story about this strange pattern on one of Yabucoa's mountains. There was a giant devil who walked the earth and made that footprint just before he returned to the inside of the mountain to sleep. Heh, some story, eh?

Another unique feature on the same mountain chain (pardon foreshadowing) is "Roca piedra"(?), seen en circulo en eso 1992 photographia, es un ENOURMOUS stone just sitting on top of the mountain, held in place only by giant chains. If these chains were to wear out and snap, it would be adios to the houses and familes below... And hey! I just noticed an earlier "Devil's Pawprint" (en el rectangulo)!

But back to the now. This shot, a better view of the aforementioned pawprint, above center, was taken in the parking lot of my first Puerto Rican supermarket experience in 1992, Supermercados Del Este! I wonder if the supermarket retains its name after all these years. Puerto Rico can change fast (i.e. hurricanes, young-person culture, Joey V. entering the CastleVania WorldWide,...)

This splendid panorama of Yabucoa looks over nearby hills to the distant moutain imprinted with the "Devil's Pawprint", and over to the tinily-pixelled mini-industrial area just before la playa (the beach) on the horizon.

Eso es un demaciado loco surfer dude throwing up n.W.o. Wolfpac signs before taking a dunk into an oncoming tidal wave. I won't tell you it's actually me throwing up n.W.o. Wolfpac signs before taking a dunk into an oncoming tidal wave.