In the fall of 1996, at age 48, Allan Weisbecker bolted.
"Disgusted with the commercialization and overcrowding of the formerly pristine beach town where he’d lived most of his life and all-around edgy from an accumulation of personal last straws, he sold his house and abandoned a successful screenwriting career. He piled his dog, his surfboards, his whole stripped down life into his pickup/camper, La Casita Viajera (the little house that travels), and hit the road, Central America bound."
(from the web site)
Captain Zero, A Surfer’s Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road
We're linking to the site of Allan Weisbecker, the author, because we received the following email:
Dale, here's the author's link. This guy traveled from Baja to Costa looking for his buddy. There is a chapter about his stop in San Juan Del Sur.
His lunch with you at a bar where the two of you get into an argument with some Germans (at Ricardo's maybe?) and you discuss the merits of tri-hulls versus V-hull boats is about half the chapter.
In the chapter, he defines the different type of people who become expats. He rates you at the top of the list, what he calls an "explorer". It's very favorable for your image....except the comment that you are about 5ft. 8in.
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