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Options and Decisions in Limbo

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We have a lot of options and decisions right now. That is both good and bad. The good is that it is usually better to have many options than few, the bad is that we kind of have a deadline to make some decisions on them. The funding for 3/4 of my job at the county will end on July 30, 2010. We had hoped that during this last trip to Puerto Rico we would have found something that “spoke” to us.


Another house we saw

We saw some properties that we liked but were either too expensive, weren’t situated on the lot very well, were too far from the west coast, were just land with no house, or had virtually no land (the Goldilocks story without the “just right”).  We also didn’t see as many properties as I would have liked to. You would think a week is enough, but it really wasn’t. So now we are back and we are trying to figure out our best course of action given some assumptions:

A) Britton hasn’t been cleared to work remote yet, so we would have to plan on moving with very little income

B) I won’t have a full-time job come August 1. I need to either start looking for another job now, or plan for our move, or ??

With these basic assumptions, we have a variety of options:

1) Buy one of the larger places in PR and create a guesthouse. With this option, Britton would probably have to stay in Colorado while I got the place up and going, but if it works, we would have income. But because of Britton not being able to be there with me, it is not ideal. We are kind of a package deal. It would be hard to be apart for very long.

2) Buy a smaller property, but low-ball it so that we would be able to move there more quickly without much income. None of the smaller properties were exactly our “dream house” so this is not ideal either.

3) Buy another rental here in Colorado to provide more income potential for when we are in PR. We are comfortable with this as we have done it before, but it will take a chunk of our savings that we were hoping to use in PR to do it.

4) Buy a house here in Colorado that has a little bit of land (around an acre or so) and rent out our house. Then we could have a hobby farm here in the spring/summer/fall without much grief from the city and we could spend our winters in PR renting a house and looking for our ideal. I could do some part-time work as an instructor or possibly work on starting up an Internet or consulting business that could be done in PR as well. So, far, this sounds the most promising, but it puts our PR plans on hold which sucks.

So this is where we are at: a crossroads. I feel like I am in limbo and it is driving me nuts. I am a planner and right now I don’t feel like we have a solid one. And I hate pushing our dreams back farther. These life decisions are tough! But I am thankful for the options!

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Manifesting Our Life -in Puerto Rico

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Today we saw a few properties that were at the top of our list to see. They were pretty much as we had imagined based on the descriptions and photos, but you always get a different feel for something when you actually visit it. It is like a place has a certain vibe or something. We liked the one that we could make into a guesthouse type of place, but we have been doing a lot of soul searching as of late about what exactly we want to manifest in our lives. We seem to gradually get closer and closer to an ideal of some sort, but because it is so fuzzy in our minds, it’s hard to make out. Today (it may change tomorrow) we are leaning toward something a little smaller.

These are the kinds of questions we have been asking ourselves. For instance, do we even want to start a business? Do we just want to lounge around in hammocks all day? Do we want to grow and sell fruit, eggs, and other farm products? Do we want to travel? What will we do for work/money? All of these are factors  in the realm of possibility for us. All we have to do is pull the trigger to set into motion a whole new world. We need to have enough income to do so, and we need to have something meaningful to do with our lives. When you get down to the basics of life, that’s really what it comes down to. We will create our reality one way or another.

It is interesting because in Greeley, usually you can buy a property for less than you can rent it, but here in Puerto Rico, it is opposite. So, that begs the question of whether or not it would be smart for us to just rent for a while? Then we could travel the world or go back and forth or do whatever. Well, I told Britton that I am kind of a home base type person, even though I love traveling. I like to have a “home” I call mine and I am not used to renting (but that’s not to say I necessarily wouldn’t also). 

I think we are really blessed because most people never really think about manifesting their lives; they get what they are given and try to make the best of it. And to some extent we do that as well. But really what we have been given is an opportunity to take our life in any type of direction we want. Sometimes having so many choices can actually be harder than being limited (you know, the kid in the candy store scenario).

Today we seem to have come to some sort of plan that we are both pretty happy with, but we still have a little bit more time here before we make it official, or even to see if all the stars align from other people’s perspectives. So all we can say is row, row, row your boat…steer it the best you can…because you never know where life will take you, and it’s not all in your hands.  

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Leaving for Puerto Rico!

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The time has come to take another step in our journey.  Should be a good time.

We are still ‘up in the air’ so to speak about what direction to take in our journey to move to Puerto Rico.  It seems that we can take a safe path, a challenging path or somewhere in the middle.  Its tough to make such decisions but it is a lot of fun too.  Feeling alive.

Over the next week check back often for updates!


The view from the “house on the cliff“

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Fear, Excitement and the Unknown

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We have been looking at all kinds of property listings and trying to imagine living at them. Its tough because pictures just don’t do anything justice. When I find a listing that I know we could afford and try to picture myself moving and living there….I get some mixed feelings. The only way I can describe it is that this is “life”. I am feeling life. I am not used to that.

I have spent most of my working life (10yrs) in front of a computer screen. I think it has screwed with my emotions/perceptions quite a bit. I’ve lived a comfortable life. When I think about moving to Puerto Rico I have no clue what so ever what it will be like and I am not used to that. Its exciting!

I am used to knowing what the weather will be, how long my drive will take, what my day will consist of, what I will eat for lunch/dinner, what time I’ll go to bed and what time it will all start again the next day. It must be what my dog’s life is like in some ways.

I got some pictures of a property that is for sale, here is one of them:

Sleeping off the side of a cliff scares the living crap out of me when I think about it. LoL It seems that a lot of places are built like this in PR. Something about it seems unsettling in my mind. I want to go inside and jump around to make sure its sturdy! A friend of mine brought this up to me when I sent him the picture. He lives the same life for the most part that I do so maybe we are just fraidy cats?

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