The Long Road Home

As things have moved along after selling Surf Tours Nicaragua, Theresa and I have had a few changes in the plan of what we are going to do. First, we moved to Leon after our departure from STN, and lived there for a month at La Isla, which is just a couple doors down from La Doctora's, where I normally stayed in Leon. It was a bit cheaper, and had a big, beautiful garden for the dogs, where they could tear around.

After a little over a month in Leon, a bit of travel around the country with Marc and Brownie, and some bad luck with Brisa, we decided that a move from Leon was a good idea, and have been in Granada living in a little house for the past 3 weeks. Spent the first couple of weeks feverishly applying for yobs in the US, but we have slowed down on that having realized that the market up there is a bit worse than we thought...

For now, we are recovering from a couple of nasty colds, waiting for our buddy Andy (Lazybones Hostel in Leon) to get our new family addition ready for us to take over. After almost 3 years of convincing, Theresa and I were finally able to talk him into selling us his 1976 VW Double Cab Pickup (like a bus in the front and a truck in the stern). We are stoked!

This is a picture of one somewhere in S. Africa...killer, eh? My buddy Brownie's dad had one when we were growing up, so I guess you could say that I have had a love affair with them since I was a kid!

We plan to stick out September here in Nica, preparing for the trip north and working toward getting The Ranch sold, and then we are off on our great adventure north.

More to come...

Yep, its official. I sold Surf Tours Nicaragua! After just 4 short years of operation at a whirlwind pace, I was able to sell the business for a tidy little profit (actually, less than 2 times discretionary earnings) and just enough that I will be able to pay off The Ranch with the proceeds. And now on to the Next Adventure...

Theresa and I are going to kick it here in Nicaragua for a bit to get ready for our next move...which we haven't exactly decided what it will be. One thing for sure, though, we are going to buy a Toyota Land Cruiser BJ40, which is the diesel version of the old famous Land Cruiser "Jeeps" that so many off-roaders live and die by. With a new engine and transmission, the old ones in-tow on a custom trailer, and a little fishing skiff mounted on top, we will set out for the US for our triumphant return.

The plan for the moment is to head straight to E. Texas for our entry, and then put our heading NE until we arrive in New York or Massachusetts where we will start a nationwide tour visiting our guests from the past 4 years. Down the eastern seaboard to the tip of Florida, back up through the Dirty South to Texas, across the SW to California and finally up the west coast to Oregon, where we will check in with family before making another life decision.