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Extreme Driving to Extreme Luxury in Southern Nicaragua
We were headed down to Southern Nicaragua to check out Rancho Santana and talk about possibly using it as a location for an upcoming women’s surf and yoga retreat. The drive usually takes about … more →
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Extreme Driving to Extreme Luxury in Southern Nicaragua
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wrote 2 months ago: We were headed down to Southern Nicaragua to check out Rancho Santana and talk about possibly using … more →
Hippy Hop Attack IPA
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wrote 2 months ago: I’ll admit that I was a doubter. After participating in numerous homebrewing efforts over the … more →
Coconut-Rolled Cashew Honey Cacao Balls
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wrote 2 months ago: We are all about the homemade – home-brewed IPAs, home-fermented honey wine, and now hand-roll … more →
Holly Beck Surfing In Nicaragua
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wrote 4 months ago: Check out a few clips of Holly Beck surfing in Nicaragua in Nov/Dec 2011. Good times, great waves, s … more →
DIY Guanacaste Stairs
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wrote 4 months ago: We moved into our new cabana about a month prior and had yet to take full advantage of the loft beca … more →
Simple Life at Home in Nicaragua
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wrote 5 months ago: I’ve been in the States for two weeks and I’m getting desperate to be back home. After a … more →
Eco-Friendly Bee Hive Removal
wrote 7 months ago: While trying to install our signal booster antennae on our new house, we heard a buzzing and came ac … more →
Mountain Biking to the Real Goods Solar Living Institute
wrote 7 months ago: What is this magical product that I found at the Real Goods Solar Living Institute? Watch the video … more →
Building a Cabana in Nicaragua - Walls up and Siding on
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wrote 7 months ago: The walls are up, the siding is on, and our cute little 18′sq cabana is nearly finished! We ha … more →
Geodesic Dome with solar, wind, geothermal power
wrote 8 months ago: A friend of a friend’s place in NY, also has old tire terraced gardens, crushed rubber paths a … more →
Framing the Octagon Window
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wrote 8 months ago: Designing the window placement was a fun experience that involved measuring, re-measuring, and measu … more →
Building in Nicaragua - Concrete Floor, Tile, and Wood Dilemmas
wrote 8 months ago: Building in Nicaragua is both much easier and much more difficult than it would be in the States. Th … more →
Designing an Eco-friendly Cabana in Northern Nicaragua
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wrote 8 months ago: Using the Barefoot Architect by Johan van Lengen to get a few ideas during the design process. … more →
Building in Nicaragua - Palm Fronds for the Thatch Roof
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wrote 9 months ago: Accessing the palm fronds for the thatch roof turned out to be one of the easiest things we’ve had t … more →
Building in Nicaragua - Is Cutting Mangroves ever Sustainable?
wrote 9 months ago: Mangle, mangle, mangle! We were told we needed to get some varilla to support the palma (palm thatch … more →
Building in Nicaragua - Eucalyptus Plantation and Roof Assembly Video
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wrote 9 months ago: The video footage of the Eucalyptus plantation experience and the start of the roof assembly. … more →
Building in Nicaragua - Eucalyptus Plantation Politics
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wrote 9 months ago: The house progresses rapidly. It’s amazing how quickly the eucalyptus posts can be assembled into ho … more →
Building in Nicaragua - Shopping for Eucalyptus Video
wrote 9 months ago: A video summary of shopping for the eucalyptus posts that will become the pillars for our cabana in … more →
Building a Cabana in Nicaragua - Eucalyptus posts
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wrote 9 months ago: Lately our home base has been a thatched roof cabana at El Coco Loco, the Eco-hotel where we run our … more →
