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March Puerto Rico Trip Goal- Buy Property

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We have some goals for our trip in March to Puerto Rico. Most obviously, we want to look for a property to buy in the western side (Aguada, Rincon, Mayaguez area). This is difficult because in Puerto Rico there is no MLS (multiple listing service), so you have to go with various real estate agents to see houses and you have to look all over the place. The best place we have found so far online is Clasificadosonline. It seems that most Puerto Ricans haven’t gotten too much into Craigslist, which I think is an absolute necessity here in Colorado. But Clasificadosonline pretty much fills that need in PR.

Anyhow, it is difficult to gauge the market in PR because of the lack of MLS or central resource of properties. Plus, a lot of people sell as the owner without a real estate company involved at all. We are planning on seeing a house with a real estate agent (Jose Marti Realty) and asked if we could see others with him, including others he has listed and he tried to sell us a house-hunting service! ! For like $500 a day just to drive around with the realtor! That is ridiculous. I can’t imagine it is such a seller’s market that they are discouraging possible buyers through this “service”.  If I were selling my house, I wouldn’t put it through this company just for that reason alone.

So our main goal is to find a place that works with what we are looking for (a little bit of land and a comfortable house that we can rent out a portion of, not too far from the beaches and a town) and put in an offer. We would like to close on it this year if possible. We are not sure if we would be moving out right away or what, but we would like to have a property ready for us.

Other goals include meeting some of our blog friends and enjoying Puerto Rico as we always do. We are flying in to San Juan, although I am getting very tempted to fly into Aguadilla, but we just never have before. Then from there we are taking a rental car to Rincon where we are staying as roommates with two women who rent out their house in that way. We talked with one of them on the phone and she sounds like she will help us out in finding a place as well.

We also found this great reggae musician, Mishka, and so we plan on listening to a lot of his music in the rental car while we are driving around.

 

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Our Backyard on the Front Page: A Strange Life

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This picture was on the front page. Kitty and the Hens.  🙂

Britton and I have been thinking that life is like that Talking Heads song, Once in a Lifetime. “You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?” Sometimes Britton and I just look at each other and smile knowing that life is but a dream. You never know how one moment will lead to another. Yesterday, for instance, our cat and chickens were on the front page of the news.

 

It is sad, really how the whole chicken debate turned out. Mostly for people who will continue to live here and try to make this city a better place. I have tried, and believe me, it can be done, but it is HARD work. It is underappreciated work.

But Britton and I are ready to move on both literally and figuratively. We booked our next trip to Puerto Rico in mid-March! We are going to find a house! We are super excited. I can’t wait for the next moment when I look up and ask myself, “how did I get here?”, and then I’ll remember; what a strange life it is going gently down this stream.  

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Latin Night in Denver

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My salsa dancing legs

 

Last night you could say we had a “Latin Night”. We decided to get together with some friends and go out to dinner and then go salsa dancing in Denver. We went to Los Cabos II, a fun Peruvian restaurant and then we went to La Rumba, a great salsa club afterward. At dinner Britton and I sat in the middle of the table with half the conversation on one side talking in English and the other side talking in Spanish. I thought it was great…and even Britton was catching the gist of quite a few Spanish words.  It would be great to take a trip to Peru during the Peru holidays.


Shana, Adriana, Kelly, Me, Rosario and Ofelia before dancing

Then we danced till about midnight at La Rumba. We had been there before, but it was still great fun. We took a short lesson and then watched a performance by some salsa dancers in West Side Story-type garb. When the live band started my friend Kelly said it reminded her of the Ricky Ricardo band/orchestra. They had a lot of great musicians and there were a ton of people dancing. My feet started to ache (the price of fashion I guess) and we were ready to go anyway. It was a great night out.

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Poudre River Mishawaka Reggae Music Festival

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After our exciting hiking and biking, we went down the road to Mishawaka for their 5th Annual Reggae Music Festival.  We had never been to a concert there but had driven by enough times to know that it is a hippie hang out and we were interested in finding out what it was like. From the road it doesn’t look like much, but there are always a lot of motorcycles and cars pulled off to the side. When we walked in, it was apparent why it is such a cool and popular hang out. The stage is about 5 feet from the Poudre River!

They have an outside seating area where you can have food and drink, or you can stand right in front of the band. A lot of people were playing hacky-sack and dancing to the different reggae bands. There were a lot of people with dreadlocks and Jamaican colored outfits.

We also saw quite a few river rafters floating down who would pull off to the side of the river to sit, watch and listen to the bands before floating away. It was a neat experience. Even though Mishawaka is a much smaller venue, I’d have to rank it up there with Red Rocks in terms of the cool factor.

Mishawaka Reggae Band
One of the various bands with the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop

River Rafters
River Rafters Near the Mish

Cassie, Stage and River
To the Right you can see the River

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