When to go surfing in costa rica
Surfing & Living in Costa Rica, How We Afford To Do It
hey what's up everybody so today's video
we got the videos kind of rolling in
slow-mo and I'm going to talk about a
topic that I may have covered a little
bit but I don't really remember covering
a lot but it has been asked quite a few
times and the question is how do you
guys live in close together you make a
living and surf and do what you do how
do you guys give by and actually it's a
very good question so I guess I'll take
us back a little bit so when we first
came to Costa Rica that we'd had sold
our house in Las Vegas and that was
right before the financial bubble the
real estate bubble so we got lucky
turned out about a year year and a half
later but anyhow we basically were able
to come to Costa Rica buy some land it
was a lot cheaper back then so I'll tell
you living in Costa Rica a lot of people
come here and they try to move here and
they have these dreams and aspirations
of starting the small business and live
in a simple life but it turns out it's a
lot more expensive than they thought and
it really is it's not as easy to just
come down here and work as a yoga
instructor or surf instructor and they
ran the food's really expensive and it's
just so many things and you a lot of
especially families will find it harder
to make ends meet but anyways to get
back to the story what we did is we knew
at some point that we were going to have
to you know make an income because it
was only temporary that we were here in
Bothell and we were going to build a
house and we started building the house
and ran into somebody my partner and
boom shock of surf camp was the the idea
came out so we actually that was
basically what we did the majority of
the time we were here we're an owned
half owned shock a surf camp and we did
that for about seven and a half years
eight years we built it for about nine
months and it was like perfect timing
because pretty much when we were running
out of money is right when we just kind
of started getting going and that's what
we did for about seven years and I can
tell you you know if you looked at it
and you saw if you might think that we
were doing really well
but it was really just affording the
lifestyle and a lot of work I mean we
were doing yoga surfing breakfast dinner
and of course the hotel and it was a
small boutique hotel surf camp that is
for cabinas max capacity of around 10 to
12 people and we did that for about yeah
seven half years like I said and we
pretty much got burnt out of it and
towards the last couple years that's
when we started this YouTube channel
about two years two and a half years
before we got out of the surf camp and
we also started a membership site and I
started getting a lot of surf lessons on
the side so it was kind of an
accumulation of things so when we
basically completely burnt out
we decided you know what it's not worth
it to be down here
if we're just working and stressing and
you know not really enjoying ourselves
like we felt like we should so we
basically went ahead and sold our half
which we definitely probably sold
cheaper than if we had owned the whole
thing but it was worth it to us and
sometimes that's a sacrifice you have to
make to get the quality of life that
you're looking for so basically what
we've been doing since then is we've
been basically doing the YouTube channel
the membership and then I do surf
lessons on the side and a couple other
things online sometimes I'll do a little
bit of graphic design or web design but
one of the things that makes it possible
for us is the fact that we had bought
land when we first came out here and it
was a lot cheaper back then and when I
say a lot cheaper I mean like literally
one fifth the price maybe even cheaper
one six the price so if we were to come
now we wouldn't be able to afford it so
it was just timing and I feel like you
know there's always opportunities for
something out there if you can just find
it look for it and that kind of brings
us into the next thing that we've been
doing so you know I've been telling you
guys a little bit here and there about
this whole cryptocurrency thing that a
two
and I've been doing and I announce it on
our Instagram and you know just kind of
out of the blue a few months ago I
started to learn about cryptocurrency
things like Bitcoin aetherium and right
now the market is just going crazy I
mean it's it's like the craze right now
and it's pretty much just a bull market
pretty much anything you put your money
into right now is going up it's very
volatile but if you haven't heard of it
now then I'm sure you will any day now
and if not you may have just heard it
like in the last month or two but just
completely out of the blue a - and I ran
into a start up here and this kind of is
me always looking for that opportunity
or something and it turns out there was
a group of people doing a basically
starting their own blockchain coin and
the founder creator just happened to be
a blog fan he's like a huge Casey
Neistat fan and we told him what we did
and what he did and the next thing you
know he's like hey you know we would
love to do a vlog for our startup and I
and I was like you know what this would
be a great learning opportunity for a
tool and for me so that's what we've
been doing the last two weeks and we've
been filming these vlogs and I haven't
really said anything about it because
they wanted us to keep it a secret but
we released them about two and a half
days ago so definitely want to invite
you guys to come check out the vlogs too
and I are actually in charge so we are
actually co-hosting and it's really cool
if you're a programmer or if you're in a
tech or if you just want to learn more
about this kind of stuff you can check
out our vlog there turn I think they
turn they're turning out really good and
the name is mimic and I am IQ I will put
this in the description if you guys want
to come check it out you know there's a
lot of these things going around so I'm
not recommending that you get involved
in their starter for anything like that
I'm just saying come over you can learn
from the vlog and actually I had talked
to them about once they go public with
the coins if maybe as a promotion I
could give some away and they were they
seemed pretty keen on it so that would
probably happen in a month or two but to
kind of keep up on that
just go over and subscribe and you can
watch it too and I basically filming
this group of people here in Costa Rica
right in our backyard so it's really
interesting actually so you can come
check it out and learn about that and
hopefully the let us give some coins
away and if it's anything like Bitcoin
if you know anything about it the coin
went from being I mean if you would have
invested a hundred dollars in Bitcoin
first came in the market you would be a
millionaire that's how crazy it went and
these things are going even faster now
they're they're like increasing in value
a lot quicker I don't know where the
market will go or how volatile all safe
I definitely wouldn't recommend people
jump on that bandwagon and just throw
their money into it but definitely seems
like a lot of millionaires are being
made in this new industry everybody's
saying it's like the web was in 1999 and
this is like the newest thing the
technology and all this that's happening
anyways that's all I want to say and I
just want to invite you guys to come
check out the vlog nimac I will put it
in the description and definitely if you
haven't heard about it you should learn
about cryptocurrency because it's going
to make a big statement in the future in
the upcoming near future until then guys
Kota betta and Aloha and I will see you
in the next video
