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Vieques, Puerto Rico After vacationing and sailing to this spectacular island countless times, we are embarking on a new adventure. Here we bought a hurricane damaged house with plans to renovate it into our tropical guesthouse.  Vieques is an island located just East of Puerto Rico. Andy first set foot there in 2011 while on a sailing trip. We fell in love with this special island after several vacations. There are so many reasons we keep coming back here. The people are awesome, the beaches are pristine, and it's a different kind of vacation/tourism. There are no stoplights, cruise ships, or high rises. There are wild horses, great restaurants, roaming dogs, and bioluminescent water! Our new project house is located atop a hill in an area called Monte Carmelo. It is concrete and had a wooden roof before Hurricane Maria. She took off the roof and destroyed everything that was in the upstairs unit. There were tenants who survived the 190 MPH winds by staying...