Fog rolling in over the mountains
Now that we’ve settled in somewhat, we have had a chance to take it all in and start to really realize what we’ve done. It’s exhilarating and makes us feel alive. We’ve decided not to do too much yet as far as the house goes. We usually tackle projects like our rentals very quickly so we can get them up and running and making us money. With this house, the focus is a little different, so there is not the rush. Plus we need to recharge both in terms of energy and money reserve. We feel emptied out on both counts!
Still, I can’t help but see potential and vision for the place, so it makes me start dreaming of what this could be. We still aren’t sure what to do with the larger wooden house. It’s in remarkable condition considering it’s WOOD in the tropics and it has been sitting empty for the last 10 years or so. It has gone through at least one major hurricane and I’m sure a number of tropical storms, and still it stands today with all its contents still dry and exactly as the former owner left things. But we did have a general contractor come out and look at the property and give us some quotes on fixing things up when we get to that point or tearing it down and he even gave some estimates on future cabanas. This place holds so much potential that it’s actually hard to pin down exactly what we want to do first. We’ve just been doing a few little projects like putting in screens in the windows so we don’t get chewed up by mosquitos so badly, and buying a box fan to cool us (Britton mostly) and machete for walking the jungly areas but not too much else.
Other than that, we’re going to pretty much leave things as they are. Jeff and Katrina are in the works for selling their house in San German soon, so we’ve worked out a deal where they can stay in our place in exchange for keeping it tended/occupied until they can find another house that will work for them. I think the timing couldn’t have been any better and we’re happy to know that friends will be looking after it while we’re back in Colorado.
Overall, it’s been nice to get all settled in, even if it feels a little like camping. We’ve even started something of a daily routine! We can really start to know what it will be like to live in Rincon on our jungly property. Some moments we are just ecstatic like little kids jumping around and other times we think we might have bought a money pit. In any case, we feel like we are really living and in all those moments we just have to take it all in.