Just so we have a picture, for this post, I'll drop in one from my car collection - people do amazing things with their vehicles. Function, fancy...whatever. Above is the front of this fine truck conversion job, and below is the rear.
More lessons learned daily. After all the painful and futile struggle to find and rent or buy a house, one has just fallen into our lap. All that was required was to cease struggling and grasping, and trust that everything would follow a natural course to the correct conclusion.
The little cocina economica next to Casa San Juan is run by the family of Sonny, who sort of runs the show there. I heard that he had a house to rent, but it weouldn't be available for two months or so. At the time this didn't fit my preconceived idea of our plans - which were to immediately head straight for here with no pause.
Once we decided to make the trip more leisurly and include a stop in Wyoming, the timetable began to match the Sonny's house availability. Still, it didn't occur to me to follow up. Then today, at lunch there the subject came up again and I told Sonny about our revised timetable. He suggested that we go have a look, after he closed the place. So Mañuel and I and a couple of other guys piled in Sonny's car and off we went. I wasn't even sure where it was, what it was like, or what it cost.
It's in a nice neighborhood away from the frantic pace of Centro, a nice two story house with a covered parking area behind a locking fence, with a second floor balcony in front of the bedrooms. A patio behind. Nice garden and plants, an orange tree and a lime tree. The rent? Well, without naming an amount, if we took the proceeds from the California house sale and pre-paid it all as rent, we could live there for just about five hundred years.
I haven't seen the inside or the patio yet, but we will make this work somehow, I'm sure. Next up - a visit to the neighborhood for a good walking around and talking to neighbors.
Text © 2003-2004 Stanley J. Wolf
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