Back to reality

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Puerto Rico. 26 Jan 2026.

It pains me to look out my window now and see layers of immovable ice and not the views above and below. We escaped "Winter storm Fern" and the historic low temperatures for a resort near Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Now we pay the price for our timing, as the ice isn't going away and it won't be warm enough for many days to make it leave. Our stay was amazing and part of me wishes we had extended our time instead of coming back.

Photo by Patrick Jones. Puerto Rico. 24 Jan 2026.

I'm catching up on a lot that I missed while we were in a location with limited wifi. And that's just the work side of things. As for family history research, no progress was made while we were at the beach, so things will be a little slow as I ramp back up. A big focus over the next few days is going to be trying to dig out of this ice.

My journey down the Carter line of descendants is about to shift, as I move to my other research questions before my update next week.