Here's an update

We are a lot further than this, more photos coming in the next week.

My boy Marco with the bottom floor hotel rooms getting there....

Here's another crappy shot of the view...LOL

More soon..

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This is the steel for the second floor and the garage floor which arrived yesterday.

Here is the Franklin Jurado truck ON our property..Stoked for sure..

So that will do it for now...The past week has been amazing to say the least...From starting the excavation last week on wednesday to almost finished with the walls on the bottom floor today! WOW...good stuff

We hope to have the first floor roof/second floor Floor..haha in tommorow by the end of the day.

We had to make some minor changes as the house just isn't big enough..hahaha

More later and I will try to write some stories of the happenings as well soon.

Ciao'

Curtis

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Now I know why a good used truck is hard to find...LOL The Toyota gets her work here for sure...

Here is Sergio's truck with a now good drive shaft and trailer brakes..LOL A big load of cinder block for the project (projecta) ...easy one..LOL

This was on the bottom of the block on the big truck trailer...ewww...a 6 inch long baby viper...no longer with us..LOL

With a 30 minute drive to get gas I bought an 8 gallon tank to help out with the frequency of the trips...mountain top gas station....

This was a REALLY BIG THING!!! We got Franklin Jurado (the materials company) to take the truck up the mountain to the property....This..($40) to the driver saved us probably 6 trips in our trucks from the bottom of the hill plus man hours....NICE!!

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ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! HAHAHA This photo I took from the bar behind Chad's pool. The water in the photo is the oasis pool and the land in the background is an island a mile away....

Here is another one of the waterfall at Chad's pool and the estuary behind it....WOW

BLOCK baby!! Yea

The square there is one of the future hotel rooms for guests while the main resort is being built.

Another shot of the walls going into place....

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I got the chance to go surf finally and we surfed a beachbreak with only the three of us there.....nobody around...SWEET!

Another shot of the waves that were 3-5 feet and really fun!

a beauty coming in unridden when we first arrived

Heading out with anticipation...

A nice left!

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The new truck is getting a little dirty now..LOL

The rebar sticking up is where the floor of our upstairs will be..the view is GREAT!!

The material arena and piedra is dropped off at the bottom of the hill and we load our trucks with the excavator or (machino Pala..) Pala is shovel

Here is a view from our property in the early morning after a rain...the mist in the valley is beautiful.

This is Jason with his first Roosterfish ever. A solid 40lb fish caught on a popper!

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This is a photo I took from the property of the waves near a rivermouth last week and it was 10 feet and PERFECT....Aghhhhhh I was working...that hurt a little..LOL

A sunset shot from Chad's place.

Here is a view of the estuary from our property and isla silva adentro (inside) and isla silva afuera (outside)

CONCRETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's the boys working very hard and really excited to be on the cement phase after the long wait for sand (arena) and rock (piedra)

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digging out the foundation for the columns (colina's)

The excavation done and the final clearing out by manual labor!

The cement mixer that took 62 days from order in Costa Rica to get here after a 31 day hold up at the border. Fit nicely into the toyota though.

more excavator work being done

This is how they bend the rebar to shape it for the columns etc.

more coming

SORRY!

This is one of the many vultures that fly around all afternoon looking for a snack...there BIG

This is a local kid Eric who surfs pretty darn good. This is a wave called Emily's near the surf camp Morro Negrito! I went there for one night to get a break.

This is Eric's little brother who is TEN! A nice turn for a ten year old..

Here is the beggining of the excavation of the bottom floor of the house where the two small hotel rooms for friends and family and future clients will stay to look at our land.

Here is the view from the house when it is done....LOL NICE!!!

More coming

more work getting done now!!

Good morning from Panama!

This is our night watchman Maximillo!

The footing going in for the material shed. No cement used because it is not permenant

The walls going up!

A nice little tool shed almost complete

Even the tool shed has a nice view...LOL

Of course when you move dirt and jungle around you come across the locals..LOL A small Boa!

Will try and write more later...

Busy Busy...

The block and rebar will be ordered tommorow as well as the cement and should be delivered sat or monday. Also we have a small load of rock coming for the inside of the shed and a small walkway to the future house to help with storing materials.

Ciao'

some new pictures and some work getting done!

A bunch of kids jumped in for this picture of the kid with the baby howler monkey!
When I showed them their picture on my camera they ran around screaming and laughing.

The monkey with a monkey...LOL

This is a Tarantula....eeewww

The view is still very nice....

My boy Chad going to town on the excavator!

Moving the road down another 200 yds.

more work..wahoooo!

A close up of my good friend Willard Thompson! LOL

another of the kid with the monkey!

more later all!