2019 December
Culebra's Flamenco Beach
Flamenco Beach PR
The First place I headed after I picked up my orange Jeep for my first official Christmas Drop out was Flamenco Beach. The pilot on my flight to this magic island had dipped the wing to give all twelve of us on board the "puddle jumper" a gander at paradise. I'd read it about, I'd Googled it, but seeing it that first time from the air? I'd say it was "jaw dropping" but the whole flight from Ceiba I'd hardly lifted mine off the floor.
The small airport was adjoined by a wonderful operation Carlos's Jeeps and so it was a short hop from the airport following the Island map to Flamenco Beach. It was a good road to have a 4X4 as it's dirt, and rocks, and puddles: you know lots of fun just to drive. The end of the road is a parking lot with a trail beckoning and once you take that walk, and see that beach? I dare you to find a better beach in the Pacific, or for that matter anywhere in the world.
Ranked one of the 10 best beaches in the world, and with good reason. Softest white sand and palm trees and even a World War II tank. This beach screams "Wake & Bake"
Puerto Rico's Flamenco Beach on Culebra
Puerto Rico Drop Out Christmas on one of the ten most beautiful beaches in the world felt like a dream come true after fifteen years of nothing but horrible Christmas memories because in 2005 that was my protest to my family to say I am seriously out of the Falk marriage and drove away from Oregon and I knew that it would ruin the myth of Christmas for my Children, but the marriage was a lie and I had known since I found out my ex was serial cheater in 2001 that I was done, but nobody was listening and so I figured finally after finding Vicodin in my ex's C-pap hidden on Christmas Eve that I could no longer participate in the lie and I chose to leave the marriage and drive away and ever since my family and my ex have tormented me and so for 2019 after attending a Tony Robbins seminar in 2018 after being excluded from a memorial for my nephew who had hung himself that I made a decision that I am a force for good, I will lead and not follow and that I will defy the odds and so after a year of Airbnb success in Seneca Falls New York I wanted an authentic joy filled holiday and chose Puerto Rico and flew to the outer island of Culebra to experience Flamenco Beach at sunrise to solidify that my life was my life and I could celebrate Christmas in a place that had no sad triggers and found myself in absolute Joy on Flamenco Beach rated the world over as one of the top 10 and it was everything one fantasizes about and surpasses expectations with a WWII relic a tank left over from the days the military once used the island, and now it is a hidden tourist gem because imagine that such a location was free of people on Christmas Day. I had done it and escaped the masses and celebrated life.