We have been staying pretty busy. Every day is another new adventure for us. Sometimes we get a little overwhelmed with everything we need to do so we decide to just hang out in the cabana or on the property all day long.

We spend a lot of time on the cabana and this is the bridge that connects to the top

Then we remember that whatever we “need” to do is only because we think we do and we get re-energized. So really anything we need to do is actually just a want. The property has sat empty for over a decade, so there is no rush except in our heads.

I think we have a good balance of going out and staying in. We have started to meet more people which is nice and they have offered a lot of helpful advice. We love hearing all the stories of how people ended up here.

We continue to make progress on the property painting a bit more and making it more comfortable. Britton has been clearing out more and more of the jungle. He took down this big weed termite attracting tree but it took about 2 mornings and a lot of elbow grease since he just used the bow saw to take it down.

Going, going, gone…opened up the view to a nice royal palm in the gully

We finally tried the Thai restaurant Ode to the Elephants and really liked it! And we went to the opening night of the pizza place Mi Familias that moved to the old Rum Shack spot of the Lazy Parrot. We also went to the Rincón Farmer’s Market and it has really grown since we had been there before and is now a weekly event! We drank some fresh coconut water, some freshly squeezed cane juice and ate some red bananas.

Guineos y coco fresco -with a papaya stem straw

Yum!

Fresh coconut water doesn’t taste anything like a piña colada but it is really refreshing. It is slightly sweet and slightly salty too. Sugarcane juice on the other hand is very sweet. I got to taste a small amount after I asked to take a video of the juicing process.

Britton at the Farmer’s Market with our goods

We talked with a few people at the market and it sounds like it is pretty easy to get a table and sell stuff there. We are thinking of starting with chicken eggs and going from there when we are all set up. One of the venders even invited us to check out their finca in Moca which we thought was pretty cool.

We are slowly getting more and more comfortable at home, but we still don’t have a stove or burners, so we have been eating most of our food from the rice cooker and heating tortillas on the coffee pot -lol. It actually works remarkably well.

Rice and beans have become a staple for us!

Some food from the grocery store


Quesadillas/tortillas on the coffee pot!

We have been able to find just about everything we need at the local grocery store, Edward’s Family Coop. They will even special order stuff. It is a bit more expensive, though, like $7.50 for a container of Breyer’s ice cream. Hence the rice and beans which are cheap and relatively healthy too. We also have tried “sofrito” which is like Puerto Rican salsa and VERY garlicky. So we just use a little to season our rice and beans.

Our other favorite thing is finding all the beautiful beaches. Like Dome’s Beach that looks like a set on a science fiction movie because of the shut-down nuclear reactor that overlooks the beach. It is also where they had the surfing event in the 60’s that put Rincón on the surf-scene map.

Domes Beach

Overall, we are having a blast. There is a lot going on so hopefully this update catches us up a bit.