Closer and Closer to Costa Rica. I'm gonna stick around for voting day and then I'm heading out the 6th of November or so. I've got a buddy, Perch, from Santa Cruz that i've been corresponding with who is very interested in coming out to Costa Rica. He asked me the other day what my vision is for the beginning and it got me thinking about the first year. I was saying my rough plan is:I'll have a car in January. i think the first three or four months I'll be hiking around the farm establishing property lines, digging trails and making fences, and constructing a crude outpost with perhaps a stove, chairs... I think I will build a few shelters in that time as well because once the rainy season starts we'll need them for work space and for storage.
Around April i'll have a much better understating of the topography of the farm and maybe I'll want to go checking out other farms and travelling around a bit, picking up some ideas. maybe I'll do this for a month or two, or three. now I'm not positive how well construction can be done during the rainy season But I'm thinking around summertime I'll have a better idea of the first phases I want to do and I might hire a guy or some to help me build a permanent structure to live in with cooking, sleeping, shitting and relaxing facilities. Then we begin to figure out water catchment systems, and electricity, maybe hydroelectric, maybe solar. Then the garden will be getting going nicely I think, the compost should be ready. maybe I'll build a chicken coup, maybe buy a goat and get established.. And somewhere we'll be terracing land to plant some Cacao.
Ohh and about that picture. My That Costa Rican woman to my right is Senora Montero, the Mother of my Dad's Costa Rican lawer. She's out here for the month learning english and was showing us all how to dance to reggaeton. Pretty classic stuff.
