My new bike!

This is the new bike I bought a month or so ago. It is a 2005 Yamaha Midnight Star Silverado 1700 cc Cruiser.

I also have a Yamaha 2007 TW200 on/off road bike but wanted a bike to take on the highway. Needless to say there aren't many bikes of this size here in the DR so it gets a lot of attention.

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This is bigger than I have ever owned or ridden and it took some getting used to. 800 lbs soaking wet is a big mother and I can't imagine what I will do if I ever drop it as I know I can never get the SOB back up by myself and would need 3 men and a boy to help me.

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I took it to Nagua on 3 Kings Day and boy did it draw a crowd!

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Hasta Pronto!

Plans for new Finca

I know many of you think I haven't been doing much because I haven't been blogging but alas, I have.

You will see below pictures of my new finca in Cabrera with the fruits and veggies but here is the basic design of a commercial plaza I am planning for this property.

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This isn't exactly how it will look but it is a start. I also am working on elevations of the front and will post them in a few days along with tweaked versions of this plan.

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Early bird catches the worms I am told:)

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Hasta pronto!

New mini finca in Cabrera

I just sold yesterday a small lot I owned in Sosua on the main Highway. I bought it 3 years ago and paid 30k for it and sold it for 100k. I have a good eye for Real Estate and have always been lucky as well as good.

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After moving to Cabrera I wanted to have a similar piece of property on the main hwy and got a little lucky as the people who owned it used it as a small farm.

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As most of you know I own a small farm in Sosua which is about 15000 m2 or close to 4 acres where I started from Scratch clearing, building stone walls, a farm building, 12000 gallon cistern, a roofed structure in a pasture so the animals can get out of the rain, and planting veggies and fruit trees along with raising Goats and Sheep.

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This is my second farm in Sosua because someone came and offered me STUPID money for the first which I rolled over into another that was three times the size and 5 times as nice. I actually had an offer on the newer finca in Sosua which fell apart as the Russian who wanted it got clipped in the worldwide financial crisis which didn't really bother me as I loved the place. So when I moved to Cabrera, I not only got the Highway property I wanted but I got a small farm which I have been eating beans, plantano, coconuts, bananas, oranges, grapefruit and battata already. This is a bunch of Plantains which will be ready in a few weeks.

One of many huge coconut trees. Too high for me but they fall down and we take them home for the juice inside which maria cooks with.

I have in addition Manzano de Oro, Catania, Mango, Avacados, and much much more. . My girlfriend negotiated this deal and closed the deal with only advice from me. She is finishing a degree in "Infomatica" which I believe is "I T" or information technology but I want her to have the skills to make real money:) I found the property and when I saw the owners were elderly Dominicans I asked my girlfriend to do the deal which she readily agreed. She hired a attorney and a surveyor and although there were a few problems such as having 200 m2 less than the title said completed the deal successfully at a very good price.

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I am sure I can double or triple my money in a year or two on this deal!

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Hasta Pronto!

Some differences between Sosua and Cabrera

Sosua is a tourist town that on any given night will have 200-500 hookers in the streets plying their trade. Although sex for money is different here than in the States it is a bit much for me at times.

Cabrera is NOT a real tourist town although it has what is called "Villa Tourism" where people spend from 5000 to 50,000 US dollars for a week in various villas.

Since we don't get the cheap tourist by the droves the amount of prostitutes is much less although there are some here. The ones here are also way more Low Keyed and hard to know sometimes although I can say the same for Sosua where there are some very nice gals working as prosititutes.

So, the name of the blog is no longer connecting with FantasyLand as it was when I was living in Sosua. It is now relating to the "Ponderosa" with Horse and Little Joe because that is what the difference feels like to me.

Sorry no pics of hookers:)

Hasta Pronto!

Elvis in da house

This fine lad is Elvis. He is a German Shepherd I bought as a pup and if you go back in the blog you will see this guy as a little person. He is actually still a little person at under 8 months old but he is healthy and strong. He was living on my farm in Sosua working with goats and sheep till about 3 weeks ago when I brought him up to Cabrera to protect the house. I had been hearing a lot of stories of robberies before Christmas when things get a bit crazy here in the DR with crime. Haven't heard a thing since and haven't had a problem.

The fellow I bought this guy from also owns the father and mother. The father just finished his Dominican Championship. I plan on showing Elvis as I think he will also do very well in the show ring. I know he is a great specimen because he can run down a sheep in 2 minutes and since this is what they were bred for he must move very well to do it so fast. Movement and looks is what they are judged on so he has both. He is about 70 lbs now although he lost some shape since coming over from the farm and no long works other than protecting the house.

Man the more I look at him the more I like him as a good specimen of the German Shepherd Dog (in Spanish "Pasteur Aleman".

It will be exciting to see what he looks at in 1 year. That's when he will be full grown.

Hasta Pronto!

Ok folks I am back!~

First I would like to wish everyone a very very happy and healthy New Year!

I laid off the blog for several reasons. First my dad died in October which was right in the middle of me moving to Cabrera but I was in NY for 10 days trying to sort things out after the funeral.

I then moved to Cabrera which was a big chore since I didn't actually move much other than personal stuff because I continue to own and rent my condos in Sosua so it was decorating, furnishing and finishing the home as well.

My dad died just before his 93rd birthday. He wasn't taking any medications, was driving and working up until the day he died. He lived a great life and a very interesting life and rejoiced in it totally. He died the perfect death which to me was rapidly without pain, without laying in a hospital bed and happy as a lark.

I spoke with him the night before he died. He had dinner with my sister at friends of theirs and he was elated he didn't have to cook or clean:) He was a pisser up until the final day may he rest in peace!

I have no bad feelings about him nor his death. After my mother passed away about 8 years ago I had a lot of personal time with my dad. He told me then he was going to go quickly and not spend one day in a hospital. My mother spent 6 months in one before her death. We bought and paid for his funeral before my mother passed when we bought and paid for hers. We also did estate planning so there was no big deal other than his car at his death. Well planned for many years and no problems generally associated with this type of thing others worry about.

I have now fully moved in to the new home in Cabrera, have had my first Christmas/New Years holiday here and love the place. As you can see I am now not blogging from Sosualand anymore and have changed the introduction to the blog.

No pictures today but they will follow shortly in the next installments. If you are still reading this give a comment please! Hasta Pronto!