Yesterday morning we bought bicycles. We figured it would cost just as much as renting beat up cheap bikes for a month. The hardware store selling them was about a mile out of town. Rolf drove us there. We paid 130,000 colones (about $225) for the two bikes, including baskets and rear racks. It was raining buckets while we were at the store, so Rolf even drove us back to the hotel with the bikes in the back of his Toyota pickup. We didn’t test drive the bikes due to the downpour. When we took the bikes out for our first ride when the rain stopped after getting back to the hotel, we discovered Shar’s bike was missing a nut on one of the bolts holding the front fender. My basket was missing a nut/bolt fastener. Rather than ride out to the store where we’d bought the bikes we went to the smaller hardware store in town. I won’t relate the story of our 30 colones (about 5 cents) purchase, which took quite a lot of time involving six store employees as well as a return trip.
Yesterday afternoon Rolf told us that Tio (a guy who works for him) & Caterin (his stepdaughter) put the word out, and people are in line arguing over who’s going to buy the bikes from us when we leave.
Rolf has been bringing us fruits from his place daily–mangoes, limes, bananas. He said Tio likes bananas & plantains so he keeps planting them. Now he is loaded with bananas. "I need to get him to stop planting more bananas." Caterin just brought us up a couple of guanabana refrescos–muy delicioso!
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