Costa Rica Journal - Saturday, 5-23-09

After breakfast we decided to drop back in on Patrick to see if we could go see the property. He wasn't there when we arrived, so Charlotte showed us around the beautiful garden until he came home. We then went inside and talked for a while and then we had a visit from Brock, the beautiful macaw that liked to visit them on a regular basis. After some more time we finally were able to steer the conversation into going to see the property. As we were driving over, the rain came down and drenched the three in the back of the truck.

It was a good thing that the town we were headed for was not far. It was a town we'd been through many times but not actually stopped there. It was very sad to see the store we had arrived at was flooding in the back. We went across the street and had some coffee at a soda while we waited for the rain to let up. As we waited, we talked and it was becoming more apparent that Patrick's views for his community were very different then Kevin & Heathers. Soon, we took a tour of the property. It was nice enough, the views showed toe town, the lake and the wind turbines. There was a certain charm to it, but I didn't really feel it was anything special. Just a typical big house on the hill kind of place.

There was a gorgeous place at the end of the tour next to the river, but when we tried to get a price out of Patrick, he couldn't really quote us one. It became obvious to me that this wasn't a place where I wanted to live. Soon we left and went back to Arenal, dripping Patrick off on the way. We had dinner at the pizza place, and then came home for some music and thought processing.