Our story began in Costa Rica (before the price spike!) as we explored the possibility of opening a small « Batido » (smoothie bar) by the sea or a small jungle tour company in the area with Benito’s army vehicle.
It would have been great! The jeep could pass everywhere. We’ve experienced it in a thousand and one ways in Quebec and it was perfect for wild adventures in the jungle.
Costa Rica Jungle it was called.
We had created a website and everything.
We just needed a land. A little lot we could call our home at the end of the day.
We explored the country up and down, looking for the perfect place, without really finding it. I liked the Jaco style, but Benito is more… conservative?
He liked Matapalo or Peninsula de Osa. I thought it was too far.
We went four years in a row, but the last two years (from 2013 to 2015, if I remember well) there was nothing more to do down there. I thought buying four stakes and a rusty tin roof for US $ 500,000 was a total non sense.
One day I remember, we were at Dominical waiting for the bus. Suddenly a guy shows up and asks us where we come from, what we are doing in Costa Rica. So we tell him we are from Canada looking for a land. The guy tells us he does have a land for sale and that for us, he would let it go for 5 million US.
I told him I was not Celine Dion.
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Aside from landing in Liberia (where it’s always very economical to arrive), that was, I believe, the last time we’ve been to Costa as visitors.
That year, we were told about Nicaragua, which apparently was « like Costa Rica twenty years ago ».
But like any North American who has studied a bit of history in elementary school, obviously, we have also asked the question that kills:
-Yes but ist’it dangerous in Nicaragua?
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Incults of « Cheles » * we are.
The answer is no. Nicaragua is safe and not more dangerous than Costa Rica.
So the following year, we left for Liberia, but this time with the intention to cross the border of Penas Blancas and visit the straightest touristic places in Nica: traditional San Juan del Sur, Ometepe and Granada.
So this is what we did and, despite the ups and downs that we have lived there for 5 years, today we agree that this is probably the best move we made in all of our life.
* chele: white (leche = milk)
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