Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Island life

This is one of my favorite golf carts,specially like the tail gate. Looks like my friend got a flat tire,happens. This will cost about $ 7.50 U.S to have it patched. We normally keep a spare around if we can help it. I guess now with the streets being cobble stoned we are all seeing less repairs.
Years ago, during rainy seasons we would have flooded pothole roads that you could not ride a bike down. The pot holes were big and deep and everywhere. There is not a picture of the moon that looked any worse. In those days it was hard to get your cart in and out of the busy mechanic shops, after they were beaten so bad.
Casey and I sat at BC's debating what would last longer a four wheeler or a Mule. He choose the Mule because it had a flat bed. I don't think he got 3 years out of that thing.I know he was always looking for parts mechanical and body. That was a very holy vehicle, the salt air, water and the craters, huh. Its best to switch to another topic, my back is killing me just thinking about it !!ya just wouldn't believe

Looks like we have a 4 sale by owner in San Pablo subdivision. This is a great neighborhood with electric, water, cable, dsl, telephone and trash p/up. The lot size is approximately 50X75 feet and should sell for about 50k U.S dollars. Based on comps in the area .
Beachfront 3 miles South no electric yet 50 foot beach X115 depth $275,000 terms available.Electric short distance

Tropic Air should be done by the middle or end of May. The guys are working hard to finish up before the end of may. A punch out list here in Belize is a matter of when you give up and are just happy to finish, the noise, people and $$. Building is just tiring and expensive, here there everywhere in the world ,not just here. We had a great builder for the house, a engineer and designer and we still have a couple flaws that are just not worth going back.That's why I always tend to overkill on my projects, as long as it is strong I am satisfied. Tina its all about esthetics's, she typically gets last call. To save myself the time I would always tell the builder go to Tina first. The crew never listened very well , would come back to me. Normally we would talk it out and do exactly what Tina had asked.Finally towards the end Tina could give them direct orders.They don't really feel comfortable taking advice from women in construction. In Latin America you will see that often ,very common, we respect,embrace the culture.
You better bring a
sense of humor and a whole lot of patience and a little bit of compassion to start, if you plan on moving here .
Tina really impressed the guys,she sat for weekends working on the hard wood ceiling and floors. She would pick each piece one by one, color by color(5 different woods). Free Tip: when building with local woods ,specially finish wood order way in advance so you can dry out the wood. Otherwise the wood will shrink and you will begin to see day light. Ask a good cabinet man for advice on where to buy and how to store and dry out. Tip # 2 You can find some incredible tiles in Mexico. We found nice porcelain,can't say enough about them.We were lucky our builder has worked with the tiles before. They are not the same size, you have to be careful when you are laying them.Well lucky us, had no idea some things work themselves out. Figured we deserved a break from all the other challenges incurred during building. We are very, very happy and still have our marriage.I think?

This was interesting, how is this guy going to get this out of the road?
Hope this guys day gets better

I had no idea we had a tow truck on island!This is a service vehical don't even think of anything other than a G. cart by Tim

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