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10 Reasons We LOVE Puerto Rico

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Survival Beach, Aguadilla Puerto Rico

We have been enjoying ourselves this winter season in Puerto Rico even with the scary earthquakes we’ve been having. Whenever there is extreme weather, catastrophes or other issues about Puerto Rico in the news, we have people question our reasons for living in Puerto Rico. So I thought I would make a list of the top 10 reasons we moved to Puerto Rico and continue to LOVE living here.

So I made a video about the ten reasons, and you can check it out here.

The Top Ten Reasons We LOVE Puerto Rico

1) Food and Tropical Produce
2) Gardening Year Round
3) Tropical Climate
4) Explorations and Adventures
5) Beaches and Sea Life
6) The People
7) Culture and Traditions
8) Mixed Language and Customs
9) Simple, Less Costly Lifetstyle
10) Self-Propelled, Free Life

Recently, we have been enjoying a lot these reasons. We have gone on a variety of adventures including to a new waterfall in San Sebastian which was absolutely breathtaking. We finally found Survival Beach and we even went out on a boat (Taino Divers) and saw whales breaching for us! Life is truly magical here. Remember to subscribe and ring the bell on our YouTube Channel for daily life updates and adventures and like the videos if you do! It helps us stay motivated to keep creating if we know people are into it! Also, let us know if there is a topic you’d like us to cover!


Survival Beach hike


At Survival Beach


The Hunt for El Saltillo! We found it!


Whale Watching Boat Trip with friend Berkley


Fun with the kiddo!


So amazing to see these animals up close in their natural habitat!


Our flower business is doing well! Lots of collaborations for weddings and individual sales too!

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The Holiday Season in Puerto Rico 2019

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The holidays are in full swing here in Puerto Rico this year. The festivities are on fire and it seems that every other day we have one party or another to attend. It has been so much fun! Thanksgiving with our neighbors, birthday parties, cookie exchanges, encendidos, parrandas, school parties and more. It has been non-stop. It is so true that Puerto Rico knows how to party and the winter Christmas season is the best for that!

   

When we haven’t been out having fun, we’ve been trying to take advantage of the extra time we have with Aeden in daycare and the fact that it has been so much cooler in order to expand the gardens. We recently planted over 35 new cultivars of heliconias and are so excited to see them grow! The cabana has been steadily booked with guests and so that keeps us busy with maintenance, tours and turnover. It’s been a very fufiling time in our lives. I’ve been trying to make more videos in order to capture the essence of life these days, sort of “vlog” style if you’d like to watch some other things that we’ve been up to. Here’s our channel: LIFETRANSPLANET YOUTUBE


Christmas Fun


Primer Cumpleanos for friend Nico’s Birthday Party


Holiday fun. At the beach, with a Norfolk pine (a tropical Christmas tree!) and surfer statue has been Santa-fied


Winter is the best time for a swim!


Or just visit the beach


There was a fun party at the lighthouse


We went out to the encendido in the Rincon Plaza – the best orchestra in Puerto Rico (Orquesta Sinfónica)!


Cows and geckos- normal sights


Had a fun stop at Tres Sirenas Inn


And an awesome farm called “Finca Brutal”



Thanksgiving with our neighbors was a lot of fun!


The beauty of this place still astounds me


More fun out and about



Some new additions to the garden and harvests


Preparing for a flower delivery and working outside in December!


Check out this GIANT heliconia called “Beefsteak” or Mariae. With our new friend Carlos

It’s been an active period of growth, literally, while we enjoy the holidays as well. We hope yours are going well also! Felicidades.

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Life Updates: Around the Farm and Town

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Life has been swinging right along.

We continue working on our flower business. We have more demand than supply so that’s always a great recipe for expanding and planting more and more. Something we love to do anyway!


Our flowers at a wedding!


Our flowers on display!


More and more flowers on their way!


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Animals are doing well


We’ve taken some time for beach days


Freshest coconut water from the crew down the road!

We continue to host our cabana for rent and have had some really fun guests such as ethnobotanist and author Maria Benedetti and competitive surfer Dominque Miller stay with us!


Dominique and her mother at the Rincon Farmer’s Market

We’ve been out hunting more waterfalls and found a nice close one in Anasco that is also an abandoned park!

 

 
At Salto La Encantada

Aeden keeps getting bigger and bigger and has even started walking a little! We also have put him in daycare a few days a week which has opened up our time quite a bit in order to manage our businesses (and just get a breather). He seems to enjoy the socialization time that he doesn’t get being with us 24/7.


Approximately one year apart! My how he has changed!


Aeden enjoying some play time at school


Dress code at home: No shirt, no shoes, no problem!

Sugarcane in bloom

Well, that about covers everything new in our world. Hope all’s well in yours!

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The Story of the Love Castle

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With the owner of the Love Castle, Don Cuchi Carrero

I had the recent pleasure of talking with the owner of the “Love Castle” or the conch house in Rincon. I have written briefly about this strangely cool place before, but I never knew the back story. We just happened to run into the owner one day and struck up a conversation and got it on video. It turns out he is looking to sell it although he is still (and always) doing more work to it!

Check it out!

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