Jen made the leap to island life in 2017 after yearning to be an island girl for most of her life. She landed in St. Maarten and had three blissful weeks before Hurricane Irma blew her island dreams to bits (literally). After bouncing around to Puerto Rico, Nevis, Curacao, and Saba for the following 7 weeks, she landed in Curacao and has been there ever since.

Jen loves to SCUBA dive and fancies herself a mermaid, but alas her legs keep growing back. A physician\’s assistant by trade, she’s still trying to find her financial groove on the island and has sold cosmetics, mermaid products, jewelry, written for a health PR company, done telemedicine, and currently is a surrogate consultant and an online travel agent.

She hopes to stay on this rock indefinitely, but as Hurricane Irma taught her, you can’t really plan – life has other plans!