July

We are on the bus to San Jose and from there we will take another bus to Monteverde. It is a beautiful sunny day – it figures!

As today is a travel day there is nothing new and exciting to report so I am going to backtrack a bit…

In Monteverde we had banana’s growing outside our back door. In Puerto Viejo we had coconuts.

Just outside of Puerto Viejo there were dozens of banana farms. Even if every person in Costa Rica were eating bananas every day there would still be millions left over so these must be for exporting. Speaking of banana’s, look what happened while we were away!

Ayer, cuando nos fuimos a dar nuestro paseo en bicicleta vimos algunos surfboarders. También tenga en cuenta la arena negro.

Bethany and Luis are the couple that own and operate the Lizard King Hotel that we stayed at. Luis’ family built it about 12 years ago but 6 months ago Bethany and Luis moved here from California to take over as the parents no longer wanted to run it. I have been speaking with them and watching the various hotels & restaurants as there is a lot of property for sale down here. I don’t know that I would want to own one by myself but it would be fun with a partner. The problem that Bethany & Luis face is that they can never get away. Or at least not together. Someone always has to be there. I am not just talking about the 365 days a year; I am also talking about the 24 hours a day. Labor is cheap but not very reliable so even though they have hired staff to help, they can’t really count on them to show up every day. At least with a partner or even two you could share the running of the business. Hmmm…. Something to think about for my retirement.