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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

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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.

 

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Welcome 2021! (Good Riddance 2020)


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!

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


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!

Abandoned Youth Detention Facility in Cabo Rojo

Fun random moments, flowers, bananas, friends, abandoned buildings, tarantulas

Ermita San Antonio

 
Fun excursions around Isabela including Royal Isabela and the Guajataca Tunnel

Fun with family who were visiting


Visit to a waterfall and molino in Maricao

Playa Buye is so buyetiful haha

Playa Buye in Cabo Rojo

Good times in Aguadilla: Crashboat, Cerro Cabrera and More even though we had to deal with a traffic ticket (dark tint)


Fun on Halloween

 


Cool new waterfall: Charca el Zumbo in San Sebastian!


Stopping by downtown Cabo Rojo after a Dr Appt


Cool Bridge in Morovis called “Puente Mata de Platano”

 

A Super Unique Experience to see an Abandoned Castle in Morovis


More good times that I don’t take for granted anymore: Thanksgiving, haircuts, flower deliveries

 
Awesome cave to explore: Cueva del Viento in the Bosque Estatal de Guajataca!

 
Photoshoots to keep up the creativity


Visit to a Gothic Cemetery (San Rafael)


Checking out a cool Hacienda (Casona Amador) including an interview with the owner!


And Barrio Charcas of Quebradillas with its Parque Jibaro


And the Portal de Los Reyes and the Cantina Custer also in Quebradillas


More flowers, gardens and out and about in RIncon


And that just about catches us up!


We wish you all a Merry Christmas and best wishes for a much better 2021!

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Puerto Rico Adventures and Home Life: Guajataca, Aguadilla, Baby Birthday and More!


Beachside in Guajataca

We have been staying busy exploring the great outdoors whenever we can and appreciating our daily life routine. Things aren’t quite back to ‘normal’ but it feels good to get out and see the real world instead of ‘doomscrolling’ and reading about all that’s not right.


Mountainside in Yauco

There is so much more that is not just good, but awesome! So we’ve gone out to explore them whenever we can. Here in Puerto Rico, we’ve had a couple of yo-yo policies opening up, locking down (for some reason they really didn’t want us going out on Sundays for a few weeks) and now back to opening up, so we try to just go with the flow of it as much as possible. When we can go to the beach we do, and when we can’t we go explore other places.  Here’s a few adventures near and far from home we found recently!


Fun day exploring the Guajataca River by kayak and Guajataca Beach with our friends Heidi and Pedro


Fun day trip to Camuy and Hatillo


Lots of fun and improvements on the farm. New concrete pad, new plants, flowers, and even new ponds for aquatics plants and fish!


Went through Tropical Storm Isaias and Laura


Short Excursions around Rincon, Aguada, Mayaguez, Anasco areas


New Waterfall Blue lagoon we found in San Sebastian


Amazing day in Yauco exploring a coffee finca


Exploring more of Quebradillas and its amazing cliff views!


In Aguadilla we finally found the “Secret Stairs” of Survival Beach! We’d been looking for them forever!


Our little boy turned TWO! I can’t believe it! Felicidades!

 



A wonderful day for a swim under a rainbow in Rincon!


Our little jungle boy!

Overall, life is good! We’re staying busy trying to remember that the best way to appreciate life is to LIVE it. Hope you are all doing well! Remember if you want to see what we’re doing more regularly, follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Youtube Channel where we make videos weekly!

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