PVCR- Day 11: It's ALL about Casa Bambora!

Hermanita and I are in Tamarindo. This blog is going to be an unabashed P-L-U-G for this marvellous place we are staying at, and the people who live and work here.

IF you are following Louise's private FB page called Pura Vida Con Mi Hermana, you will have seen that she posted the link to this"MARAVILLOSO" Casa Bambora.

Neither the pictures NOR the information give this place ANY justice.  I found it back in November while surfing the Net.  Louise had done all the work getting us information and booking places, so I had to book ONE thing at least, don't you think?  We are paying $50 per night each, Canadian, and it is H-E-A-V-E-N.  Check out our pictures and their pictures.  If you can step out of your comfort zone, (if all-inclusives are your thing)  than GO for this place.  Spend a week here. It might cost you more than an all inclusive, but the EXPERIENCE WILL BE SECOND TO NONE!

We are high up on a hill, overlooking ALL the beaches of Tamarindo.  It is warm and windy. Our room on the third floor doesn't even need the air conditioning; we just leave the windows open. HELL, we don't even lock our doors! We can be at the beach in less than ten minutes, which is a quick walk down the hill.  However, we just spent four days being right on the beach in La Samara, so we don't feel the same need to be right next to it.

Joey owns this place. He came here in 1992, a surfer DUDE!  Tamarindo was a sleepy fishing village then.  He came... and he stayed.  He bought a piece of land on this hilltop, and pitched a tent. Over the next twenty-five years, he built as he could afford, following his tent with a rancho on stilts,(basically a shack!).  Joey figures he did 80% of the work himself.  Let me tell you, he laid every single tiny tile in his pool.  He will never have ANY cracks in it.

So now Joey has this gorgeous three story home, which he lives in, wondering around being the convivial host, barefoot, in his swimming trunks. This CUTEST couple, called Jen and Jarred, from Rhode Island, run the place.  They came here five years ago, on vacation, loved it and KARMA LANDED THEM THIS SWEET GIG. They have been coming for five years, to work here for three months.  This year they are staying five months.  Work? They don't consider it work. They JUST LOVE being here.

Jen did our laundry this morning, can you believe it?  Jarred's parents, Claudia and Frank, who are the poster picture for FREEDOM 55 (all you Canadians out there!) are visiting.They are staying elsewhere, and will take my and hermanita's room, when we leave Monday morning. Boohoo!

Jared and Jen go back to Rhode Island in May, and work there bar tending, doing electrical work, and maintaining rental property, until they return again in January.  I SO, SO admire these young people WHO DO THEIR OWN THING.  They are not locked into a 9 to 5 grind; they are free spirits.  Mind you... WHAT KIND of retirement will they have twenty years down the road?  Certainly not the one Jared's parents are having. They are in their mid-sixties, and have been retired since their early fifties.  They come here to visit with Jen and Jared, have a condo in Florida, a home in Rhode Island, and will be traveling cross country (US) with friends for 45 days, in May.  What a dream life! Claudia and Frank are MY generation.  They are doing what they DID NOT do when they were young, when they were too BUSY raising a family, paying a mortgage and camping out for their vacations.

ESO ES LO QUE ES LA VIDA!  Such is life.  It is yours to live it as you choose.  ¡PURA VIDA!

Need I add that hermanita is TOTALLY chilled out?