People trying to visit national parks and other sites have been feeling the effects of the partial government shutdown, which is now in its seventh day. That hasn’t only been the case on the US mainland. In Puerto Rico, visitors trying to tour some of the island’s most popular historical sites last weekend were disappointed to find them closed. We hear from Juan Gabriel Moreno, a Chicago-based architect who had that experience when he tried to visit the San Felipe del Morro castle in Old San Juan with his family.