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2021 Life in Review!

Wow! It has been a long time since I have posted on this platform, but I thought I would take a moment to reflect on the truly adventurous year we have had.

I think part of it had to do with having so much uncertainty and so much taken away from us in 2020 that we really felt we needed to get out and LIVE! Being out in the world, especially in wild nature and recording a little bit of our journey it has helped us to stay sane and healthy in a world that wasn’t.

So without further ado, here is our year in one post.

January

Great trips and explorations to Salto Atalaya, Isabela, Mayaguez, Aguada

FEBRUARY

Our trip to Old San Juan and El Yunque and also the Cueva de Lagrimas in San Sebastian

MARCH

Amazing trip to the Guaniquilla Reserve near Buye in Cabo Rojo -Pirate Cave, Lagoon, Hacienda Ruins and more!

Exploring Aguadilla again -Borinquen Beach to Pena Blanca plus the mysterious pyramid!

Kayaking and exploring in Anasco with friend Chris

Quebradillas and Guajataca Tunnel Area

Trip to Guanica -Fuerte Capron, Copa Marina, Puente Fuig and more

Playing at home in the jungle

More exploring in Merendero, Quebradillas

APRIL

Our trip to Jayuya and Ciales!

Exploring Rincon a little more in depth

And more

An abandoned Cave Park in Camuy

Exploring Aguada and Cannon Beach

MAY

Fun on Mother’s Day and around town

More fun in Quebradillas at Barrio Charcas and Puerto Hermina

May flowers!

Charco El Pilon and La Iglesia -San German

Fun around home, Mayaguez and Aguada

JUNE

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Trip to Ponce

Cliffs above the Guajataca Tunnel

Fun on Father’s Day and more

Pastillo Beach in Isabela and the rare event of seeing the Cueva de las Golondrinas

JULY

Canal Adventure!

Fun times

Amazing Birthday Trip to Vieques Island

Arecibo and the 3 Waterfalls of “La Planta”

AUGUST

Anniversary Trip to La Parguera

Fun around town, Charco Villa and at Finca El Namero

Beaches and Waterfalls! My favorite places!

SEPTEMBER

Trip to Utuado for a drum workshop, bano de plantas and Charco Los Mormones

Small outings and Aeden’s Birthday Party!

More Daily Life Moments

OCTOBER

Trip to Barceloneta and Manati

Fun exploring and Halloween!

NOVEMBER

A Few Pit Stops around town -Earthship Aguada, Family Love Castle and more

Trip to Guanica -Playa Santa, Playa La Jungla, Old Sugar Mill Ruins

Around Aguada/Aguadilla at Christmastime

More fun in Quebradillas and around town

More fun in Quebradillas and Thanksgiving

A fun trip to Patillas to visit friends

DECEMBER

Holiday Fun in PR!

And more! Hatillo Mask Festival and Plaza of Isabela

And a great Christmas present was spending time with friends and finding a very difficult cave (that it turns out we had visited 10 years ago)!

Well, that was quite the year (and sorry for the long photo dump). If you’d prefer to watch it, I also made a montage video. We post quite often on Youtube and Insta (https://www.instagram.com/lifetransplanet/) nowadays if you’d like to stay more current on our adventures as well.

Trip to Old San Juan and El Yunque

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We recently took our first family trip to Old San Juan and El Yunque. We stopped in Santurce/Condado area and had lunch at a Korean BBQ place. It had been a year or so since I’d been to Old San Juan and over 10 years for Britton! We went with our friends from Quebradillas, Heidi and her family. We walked around and saw most of the sights that were open. It’s such a cool and historic area! We stayed the night so that we wouldn’t be rushed to get back and so we could explore the next day!

We didn’t get to use the pool at the Airbnb we stayed at much, but we did hop in!

El Morro on our Honeymoon and Now -Same spot years later!

Not the same garita, but the same idea haha

We also got to visit El Yunque. They have a reservation system that’s pretty easy. It’s $2 per car, but they sell fast on the weekends so make sure to snag them up. If they don’t have any available, just visit the south side of El Yunque where there are no reservations required. We saw La Coca Falls, Yokahu tower, Mt Britton and Tower (we love the name haha), the Bano Grande and more. It is just so beautiful! Afterward we had a nice dinner at an amusement park style place called Carabail.

*A special thanks to Heidi Aviles and Tom and Ellen Schuble for many of the photos in this post

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Welcome 2021! (Good Riddance 2020)

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Thankfully 2020 is behind us and the future is looking brighter than before.

These first few months of the year have been productive and interesting as we explore more of the island. Some of the places we’ve gone are new and others are revisits. All along the way I have learned more and more. I have been enjoying making the videos for Youtube and learning new editing techniques and we’ve been practicing more with a drone (eventually we hope to get one of our own). The direct sales flower business is fairly steady even if the farmer’s market is still not open in the plaza (there is a small market at a storage facility in Rincon). We’ve also kept super full in the cabana (you would not think there was any slow down at all in travel if our cabana was any indication!) and so we also keep up with maintenance and cleaning. Additionally, we have finally fully torn down the old shed out front and are nearly complete with the tiki-hut/gazebo that is in its place. Overall things are definitely looking much better than they did, say, 11 months ago!

Christmas Day at the farm

A visit to Cayey the Pork Highway and the Bosque Carite’s Abandoned Jail!

Nice kick-off to 2021 watching fireworks and then checking out the photogenic tunnels of Rincon

Daytrip to Cabo Rojo -Lighthouse and Poblado de Boqueron with our friend Heidi

Fun new waterhole in Aguada/Rincon!

Around the farm and Rincon- Tiki Hut construction

Day trip to Isabela -Pozo de Jacinto and Playa El Pastillo

An Awesome Project in the high hills of Atalaya Rincon/Aguada -Salto de la Loca!

New Explorations in San Sebastian -Cueva de Lagrimas!

Fun out and about

Hope all is well in your world as well!

A Few Months of Life in One Post! Fall in Puerto Rico

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Excursion to Wilderness/Pena Blanca in Aguadilla

We continue to update our life mostly on Youtube and Instagram now, but I figured I would put together a long post of the last 3 or 4 months or so. I have peppered in some of the videos here, but check out the channel for lots more! Life has been a little more stable lately than it was in the spring and summer and we, like most people, are pandemic fatigued. But we’ve been staying busy and healthy going on outdoor explorations and working on the farm. Thankfully daycare has been open since the summer so that really took a lot of pressure off. Maybe because of all the talk of dying, we have felt the YOLO sentiment even more and have seen more of this island in this last year than ever before. Every time I think we have “seen it all” there is something new! This island truly is the “Island of Enchantment!”

Fun in Aguada

Lots of fun in the gardens and even got to play with butterflies!

Incredible Sunsets!

We tore down the old shed, built a new shed/wash room and are starting to build a new tiki hut/gazebo in the old space! It has taken a lot of work and time, but poco a poco we’re almost finished!

Swimming with a sea turtle and lots of fish at Pena Blanca

You have to check out the sea turtle underwater footage in this video! Start at 8:30 if you don’t want to watch the whole video but want to see the turtle! Super magical moment!