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In our last post<\/a>, we discussed having been gone from the States for an entire year, starting in October of 2017. Well Deb and I were talking this week and she said she can’t believe how well we’re actually doing what we said we wanted to do! That’s not easy you know, it takes a lot of luck but also a lot of good planning to try to make our dreams come true. And now, I would say everything has worked out exactly<\/strong> like we planned! Every last detail was meticulously thought out, every task was perfectly executed, and everything has been absolutely perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s amazing, isn’t it? Yes it is. And also not true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OK, OK, let’s see where we done good (yes, I’m from the South), and where we went a little off course. Did reality meet expectations or did the expectations need a little course correction of their own?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This all started of course when Hurricane Mar\u00eda changed our plans entirely, knocking us off course for four months<\/a>. Honduras and Belize was a fantastic side adventure that forced us to do something we’d wanted to do, but probably never would have done. We also learned a lot about how some destinations can be different from what you see on the Internet. So when we finally were able to go to Vieques, we expected things to be different from our expectations. \ud83d\ude42 That sounds like a lot of nonsense, but the point is that the real feel of the place can be dissimilar to what grows in your mind while researching a place online. We wanted to find out if the feelings we had from our research would translate well into real life, and whether the hurricane damage would change all that. Quite a bit has changed in these last few months, but here are a few good sites for your own research:<\/p>\n\n\n\n