Well we are looking into other properties in Puerto Rico since we think Awilda is going to try and sell the Lares Property to someone else without the proper title work. We had asked her to call us back if anything had changed, but we haven’t heard anything. We figure that since we spent much of our time on the beaches that we should look to somewhere closer to Rincon. We are looking at Aguada. I think we can find something that has a few acres and we would still be close to all the ‘action’.
This NYT article lists PR as one of the more affordable places in the Caribbean to live. We would like to be out there in 2 years or less. Its a big goal for us. I keep looking back to a picture we took on our last trip. (mainly because its my desktop pic..lol) and it reminds me of our goal often.
Its a good thing that spring/summer is here in Colorado though. Its been really nice out and this weekend is rainy. I love rainy days. The mountains look beauitful and I am going to try and get up there quite a bit this year.
A shot of the Rocky Mountains taken from the car while we were on I-25
Good plan! As you know, we’re on the Rincon/Aguada border in Cruces and love it. Let us know if you need us to do any “drive by” intelligence gathering. 🙂
Miri,
We have been looking online a little and so we might take you up on that! Also, if you see or hear about any good deals, let us know too! I’ll send you a couple we are interested in via email.
Thanks so much!
Don’t rule out further south. We are in San German and haven’t had rain for 4 days now while up north it is raining every afternoon! You can always find a nice dry beach even this time of year – Buye, Guanica,
Playa Santa. We do all our diving up north (Jeff works in Aquadilla) but we kayak in Paguera, Jeff spearfishes up north and toward Boqueron, and caving is north and middle and south. Windsurfing and kayaking we do in the south (Guanica). Rainfall charts influenced our choice. We found our house on the http://www.martirealty.com website There are lovely houses and land everywhere. Depends on what you want to do. For gardening it is rockier up north, if you need less rain go south, if everything you want to do is up north consider Moca for the country thing! Looking and dreaming is part of the fun! katrina
Thanks Katrina! We’ve looked at that website before and they seem to have really nice houses on there. We haven’t completely ruled out anything yet, it’s just easier to pick a specific spot and look than a whole region (Western Puerto Rico) as we did before.
We really liked Cabo Rojo and Boqueron when we were there as well, but since we were always taking the 111 out of Lares, we usually would end up in the Rincon or Mayaguez area so that’s what we got comfortable with.
We definitely want to garden and grow lots of food since that’s what we do here in the summer (with sprinklers since it is so arid here). We kind of want to have a guesthouse or place where we could have roommates. That’s why we were interested in the place in Lares since it had separate buildings on the land. Eventually I think we’d like a boat to fish with too, so it would be nice to be closer to the water as well. Plus, it sounds like Jeff and Britton have similar job experience, so if Britton was looking for a job at Honeywell or the other techy jobs around it would be easier in the Aguada/Aguadilla area.
Looking and dreaming is definitely part of the fun…but I am ready to live there too!!