Short video about shopping for supplies to get ready to clear the Pointeen lot.

Day Two from MGA to BLU

 Finally in town and starting to get everything ready to get some work done.

Pointeen Work

Work will begin soon to fix up the Pointeen property in Bluefields.  This will give a good place to come and go to the beach from.

Getting things done...

In the United States the bad economy has been painful world-wide in the last few years:  the cost of food is way up, owning a car has become more expensive from repair to insurance to fuel, heating or cooling a home is more costly.  Even cooking your food is more expensive.  

And the cost of housing is way up...  

There's a shortage of 'affordable housing,' the cost of purchasing either a new or old home has risen in both purchase price and financing, and there are very high prices for materials to build or repair existing stock.

But someone in the small Caribbean town - where I spend time when I'm not actually at False Bluff - has tackled the housing problem in a unique way. 

On a large verdant lot with Bluefields Bay not far in the distance, someone has built half of their house now: