Gap year on the Endeavor

Hello friends and family! As of about one week ago, we have been in the Dominican Republic.  It is a very different world here than Puerto Rico.  It is definitely a developing country, with the predominant mode of transportation being motorcycles, no chain supermarkets, just "colmados" by the side of the road, and cheap but incredibly tasty chicken/beans/rice for sale at small nameless stands everywhere.  We did an overnight passage as a family to get here - Jack is writing a post about that so more later. While sailing here, the DR government is very strict about where we can go.  But for the last two days, we were at Haitises national Park.  This is perhaps the most spectacular place we have been to so far.  It is rumored to be where Jurassic Park was filmed.  There is a huge cave system there, and we visited three of them.  Absolutely breathtaking. We basically have little to no phone, and very little internet here.  Email remains the best way to reach us at present. More

Changes, again. We are seven months into one year of travelling.  Whew!  This has been a lot of travelling, although different from normal travel insofar as we travel with our house now, and don't have to pack for each new destination.  After sailing/moving nearly every day between June 2019, and November 2019, once we all made it to the Caribbean, we just wanted to stay in one place for awhile.  We spent about six weeks in Culebra, which we all regarded as our home away from home for that time.  This was interspersed with two one-week trips to St. John (including stops at St. Thomas on the way there and back each time).  This was followed by three weeks in Vieques.  During this time, we also had FOUR week-long visits from various family members - Rogge's mother, my sister and her family, Rogge's father and step-mom, and my mother.  Lots of fun to see family and catch up. As of last week, we are on the mainland of Puerto Rico, moving along the southern coast.  We are m