All week at Casa Verde we left our doors either unlocked or just left the door wide open. Nothing was ever stolen, which is such a rare thing to find now days. It was great have a vacation from work and the daily grind, but also to escape the worry of dishonest people or thieves ruining our day. The house cleaners are practically David Webb's familia. Plus, kiteboarders in general are just honest and helpful people. No one steals! In fact we all retreive and take care of each others gear all the time. Further, all week long everyone's gear was just left laying around Casa Verde, either drying or just waiting to go out the next day.
Nothing ever disappeared! Each day all the decks and cubbies between rooms look something like this.
If you look at the picture above... and see the beautiful sky...well, that wasn't the sunny weather we got on our last day. In fact, it is super gloomy in the morning, not likely to burn off, and obviously the thermal winds will probably not kick in today.
Becky does grab some pictures of the yoga class since many mornings she participated. We were inspired by the morning yoga class and plan to offer yoga each morning some day when we open a kiteboarding resort of our own.
morning yoga on a cloudy morning
But even when it's cloudy out, there is still beauty to be found at Casa Verde.
I think that I mentioned many guys chose to sleep in full sized, two beds, real looking, teepees. David Webb puts up several near the beach during the peak of kiteboarding season. This allows him to host a bigger headcount at Casa Verde. Great for the pskiters so more of us could stay at the same place, but also good for revenue for David. Obviously Becky and I were taking notes and learning from David.
Believe it or not the teepees were actually pretty comfy inside while still being spoacious, although definitely not something Becky would be cool with. She likes her amenities!
However, die hard kiters that want a cheap room and don't mind sharing a public bathroom seemed to do just fine. This also inspires us to think about something cool for the die harders during the best month or two in our own resort. We shall need to put some thinking into this.
While we never got a chance to try this out, it is an Aztec Sweat Lodge aka a Sauna....David made it himself and it is super cool. It has a propane and burner on the back, outside the doom but built into the side of it and with a burner as well. It heats up rocks piled against a side of it in a stove like area. The inside heats way up.
I wish I had got the chance to sit in it. Also another easy but cool thing to consider fore someday in a place of our own
Anyways, after walking around trying to figure out what to do, I see Scotty walking as if he is on a mission. Scotty likes to fish so I ask him outright if he is going fishing. He says "yes" and so I ask outright to tag along. He said it would be cool for Becky and I both to come. We set a time for 10 minutes to be ready in meet in the front of Casa Verde and then we would all walk to the campoground to catch a local fishing charter. Fishing isn't known to be the best in early Feb...but we all like to fish. It will be about $30 each.
Becky is at Baja Joe's talking to her trainer about lessons and the weather. I rush on a bike to go get her in time for her to come and end up meeting her about half way on her way back.
I tell her the plan to catch a charter and she is under the same impression as me...let's go fishing!!! Neither one of us believe the wind will come up, even if others are still holdiong out hope.
Five minutes later Duncan, Scotty, Steve Anderson, Becky and I are walking to the campgrounds together. I stop along the way at the tienda and grab 16 beers for us to bring along.
Another 5 minutes from then we are on the water, cruising out, on our way for a great time fishing, amoungst other things.....
to be continued......
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