Purchase Chronology

1998: KC goes on a horsebackriding tour of Costa Rica and falls in love. Travels from Tamarindo to the Osa. She does not have the good sense or money to buy property then.

2004: KC visits Costa Rica looking for future retirment location. Travels from Guanacaste in the north to Palmar Sur in the south. Lives through a 6.3 level earthquake while visiting friends on the beach. One tile falls off the roof & no one is injured. It is rainey and tourists have left due to the season and earthquake. Sadly enough she still does not have the good sense to buy property.

2005 spring: She falls in love with the Dominical area. It has many eco-minded folks, is wild with jungle & reforestation possibilities, & the mountains rise dramatically straight up from the beach.

2005 fall: KC mortgages her $400,000 home in Colorado and uses the case to buy 75 acres of farmland in the San Juan de Dios Valley for a reforestation project and horse property. 25 of the acres are reserved for a non-profit project, but she later she doesn't have the money or energy to build another non-profit. She decides in 2008 to hold it as a luxury etate property for resale. She maps 10 of her 50 acre reforestation farm as the property portion with with best horse grass, apart from the reforstation portion.

2006: KC has good friends who buy in the Rainforest Preserve near Dominical, and purchases a 5 acre piece there for a tent platform so she can plan "city mouse" and "country mouse" at the same time. She plans to work on the non-profit sustainable futures center project idea there. Back at the farm, she plants 3,300 native hardwood trees and hires locals to put up fences.

2006-now: KC visits the farm 2X per year and maintins all properties with moderate Spanish-speaking abilities. She now has more friends and aquaintences in Costa Rica than in Colorado. Her son's are sold on surfing and beach life. Farm neighbors Lucy and Ruben decide that in addition to their grad piano, they need a swimming pool at their farm & start making plans. Tico neighbor William needs a new pool stick to use with his patio pool table, so Louis promises to send one. Neighbors John & Lianne invite us to swim in their cool swimming hole on the river & Tony goes fly fishing on the neighboring Guabo river. Mary says she will help me plant 100 more trees on the farm. We love our neighbors.

2008: KC finds out about a women's horsebackriding club out at the farm & is eager to get her own horses. In the meantime, she barters with Virgilio. He can have his 20 grazing milk cows use the pastures in the farm in exchange for his caretaking of the farm and building more fences to protect the streams and trees. She pays him extra to prue & care for the reforestation trees.

2009: A spring visit to the farm shows an unfortunate die-off of trees, but the biological corridore is in much better shape due to reforestation efforts in the area, and white-faced monkeys are seen on the property. The Dominical Tent platform is put up for rent for a donation to the Preserve.

2010: Youngest son will be graduating from high school, and KC & parter will be making plans for "snow birding" to Costa Rica during our cold winters, with the goal of spending 3-6mo/yr. in paradise.

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