Well, it seems that the rainy season came to a quick start in the past three days. It ain't gonna be pretty! San Jose went well, and it is quite nice to have good food at the house and be able to eat in and save some money.
Tonight Brandon's family is having a little party at the house next to ours. They own both. It is going to be Lasagna... sweet!
So, a funny story about Andrew's car... Andrew and our buddy Nick were going out to look at this sick piece of property in the mountains. There are two ways to get there and they decided to go through the river... not a big deal most of the time but it has been raining alot this week. So, they start out and get in just a bit, and it turns out that the river bed was nasty mud, and the whole hood of the car submerged. Andrew said that he did some good driving and got it out somewhat, and then the car started to overheat and they had to leave it half way in. They called Pena, the local mechanic and he came and towed them out. So off to the long way to get to Finca Barba. Finca Barba is a beautiful property but the road to get to the lots is super steep. It was dangerously narrow, but after our mutual feeling of such, Brandon had the road widened. So Adu and Nick get to the property and start the climb, now it has been raining, and about 3/4 of the way up, the tires caked up and the tires started spinning with no forward motion... at this point Nick jumps out of the car Adu puts on the e-brake and the car starts sliding backwards. Mind you, there is a 200 drop off the right side of the road. Thank goodness for Adu's mad driving skills as he was able to pull a controlled drift into the mountain to stop the downward decent. The car is still up there two days later as we have to wait for a dry day or two to let the road improve to get it down... an adventure a day keeps the boredom away...
So about our car... the mechanic who said it was going to be 1200 came down drastically to 500 when I said I was going somewhere else. He then told me I need to give him 400 up front, and I didn't cal him for another 3 days, he called back and I told him 200 now, 300 when its done with a month guarantee, done. He actually took the bus from Nicoya to pick up the money, and is delivering the car on Tuesday. It means that he has faith in his work if he will drive the car from Nicoya!
House... we move into our new place in the next week... it will be somewhat bitter-sweet, as I don't think I will be able to afford that view for some time. But we enjoyed our time, and will surely play some quitiar and drinks some beers during sunset the next few nights... weather permitting.
Real Estate is going well. I think that soon we will be making money.
Coastal Web is also good, as we have closed another deal this week, now customers just need to payup!!! It's hard to break knees from Costa Rica.
A cultural note to end the day. For the last few weeks, locals are increasing whistling when I walk by and say hi... I figure it is just their way of a 'what-up.
well, it is, but it goes back a long way. Hundreds of years ago, Costa Rican Indians would use whistles to communicate from mountain to mountain... they all had unique sounds. So, today all the locals have unique sounds... in the water you can tell who's out by hearing them whistle.
Pura Vida...
Tonight Brandon's family is having a little party at the house next to ours. They own both. It is going to be Lasagna... sweet!
So, a funny story about Andrew's car... Andrew and our buddy Nick were going out to look at this sick piece of property in the mountains. There are two ways to get there and they decided to go through the river... not a big deal most of the time but it has been raining alot this week. So, they start out and get in just a bit, and it turns out that the river bed was nasty mud, and the whole hood of the car submerged. Andrew said that he did some good driving and got it out somewhat, and then the car started to overheat and they had to leave it half way in. They called Pena, the local mechanic and he came and towed them out. So off to the long way to get to Finca Barba. Finca Barba is a beautiful property but the road to get to the lots is super steep. It was dangerously narrow, but after our mutual feeling of such, Brandon had the road widened. So Adu and Nick get to the property and start the climb, now it has been raining, and about 3/4 of the way up, the tires caked up and the tires started spinning with no forward motion... at this point Nick jumps out of the car Adu puts on the e-brake and the car starts sliding backwards. Mind you, there is a 200 drop off the right side of the road. Thank goodness for Adu's mad driving skills as he was able to pull a controlled drift into the mountain to stop the downward decent. The car is still up there two days later as we have to wait for a dry day or two to let the road improve to get it down... an adventure a day keeps the boredom away...
So about our car... the mechanic who said it was going to be 1200 came down drastically to 500 when I said I was going somewhere else. He then told me I need to give him 400 up front, and I didn't cal him for another 3 days, he called back and I told him 200 now, 300 when its done with a month guarantee, done. He actually took the bus from Nicoya to pick up the money, and is delivering the car on Tuesday. It means that he has faith in his work if he will drive the car from Nicoya!
House... we move into our new place in the next week... it will be somewhat bitter-sweet, as I don't think I will be able to afford that view for some time. But we enjoyed our time, and will surely play some quitiar and drinks some beers during sunset the next few nights... weather permitting.
Real Estate is going well. I think that soon we will be making money.
Coastal Web is also good, as we have closed another deal this week, now customers just need to payup!!! It's hard to break knees from Costa Rica.
A cultural note to end the day. For the last few weeks, locals are increasing whistling when I walk by and say hi... I figure it is just their way of a 'what-up.
well, it is, but it goes back a long way. Hundreds of years ago, Costa Rican Indians would use whistles to communicate from mountain to mountain... they all had unique sounds. So, today all the locals have unique sounds... in the water you can tell who's out by hearing them whistle.
Pura Vida...
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