it's on the monkeys they move fast really fast they don't hesitate it's
funny all the locals around here just looking at me like yeah they're just
they're just monkeys i'm like yeah they're just monkeys
they're monkeys i've always i've always imagined being in a place where you got the beach you've
got the jungle and then monkeys like what kind of magical place is this there's so many of them
they're all over the place
it's my favorite that's my favorite monkey it's the howler monkey they make this sound
i don't know why they don't make it right now but usually in the morning and at night they're like
oh it's like my spirit animal
so many of them they're just right here at the beach
that's so cool i love how they just move throughout the trees together
way up top where nobody can touch him
look at this look at this thing
nope that's a no we're gonna keep walking this way
let him do his thing i'll do mike or she he's probably a woman
all right i'm gonna get off these rocks it hurts i tried my best to be a nature boy and
go without shoes some of these people that i look up to they've got hobbit feet they go everywhere
barefoot i don't know maybe it's uh something you're born with you have tough feet or not
gonna walk on down this path between the trees all these ants everywhere they're fire ants too
it's funny i've been here for almost two weeks and i just now found this path last night you
can walk i've been walking on the road that takes me all the way from the celina all the
way to in town i've been walking on the road but i could have been walking on this beautiful path
it takes you to the same place and it's right along the beach
i'm not silly how we all kind of get into our own
patterns and we just repeat the same thing over and over without any thought behind
the process sometimes we gotta stop take a look around and realize
we're at
i'm in costa rica i'm out of money
it took this morning to just take a walk on the beach and weigh my options
think about why i'm in this position i came to the conclusion that
this is exactly what i wanted this is the position i wanted to be in i wanted to travel
the world for one entire year when i say the world maybe the open coveted world which is
mexico costa rica panama central america pretty much and i did that i made it an entire year
and i just backpacked the whole time and it's an experience that i wouldn't trade for anything
and now that i've been out here doing this for a while i think i want to continue to do this
but now we've reached a dilemma i thought i would try the uh because i thought i would try the the
digital nomad experience and that's basically where you work from a laptop anywhere you are
almost anywhere you are the thing about it is these people who are digital nomads the problem
that i have with it is they basically are still nine to fivers you come to all these different
beach towns and now the world is a little bit different because we have wi-fi in a lot of these
remote locations where you used to not be able to have access to such amenities and to be honest i
don't understand what the difference is between working an office job and coming to the beach
and working an office job like they're still slaving away these people don't look happy
it just looks like uh i don't know maybe they're searching for something and they come and try
to find it here and they still don't find it so that's not the solution so i really took a long
hard look at the options that i have before me
and as much as i want to keep traveling i think the best thing is to go back to the states where
i'm from and start to make money the way that i've always made money i've been a contractor
a residential commercial contractor i've done house flips it's the only thing that i know
where i can make a lot of money in a little bit amount of time and for me i want freedom i want
the ultimate freedom i want to be able to create a life for myself that i'm not constantly trying
to escape from and also one that i don't trick myself into thinking i have freedom when really
i'm just a wage slave so the digital nomad thing is just not for me i think that i would rather
just travel or just work i'm not interested in combining the two i'm glad that i tried it i think
that everybody needs to experience this i mean i had to experience it to know it was something that
i really wasn't all that interested in because i really thought it was my dream i wanted to go to
like playa del carmen uh mexico work from a place like this where you know i can still there's still
some infrastructure you can still go shop and have a life i'm glad i did i've got to raise money
to get back home buy my plane ticket and get started again you're going in the right direction
but now i'm going back with such purpose you know how they say you're starting over but you're not
starting over from scratch you're starting over with your experiences all the things that you've
learned up until this point and i really think the people who succeed in life are the people who are
willing to start from zero they're not afraid to throw everything away and say you know what like
i'm gonna put my pride aside and i'm literally going to start a new these are the people that
i've seen succeed most the time in life when something isn't working you don't continue
down that same path you pause you observe you try to understand what went well what went bad
and you adapt
you pivot
so we're in the right place this is his nightly routine i think yeah the best you can taste like
every day for you for me the kitchen is important for all the restaurants hello close like uh
nine eight eight days it's early yeah but you don't get anything to meet you can go in there
no no i wouldn't see you eating it i need to see your face when you taste it
okay a little chewy did you see how excited that guy was he was so excited he tried to cut me he
was like i went three three but the one previous it was very exciting everyone wasn't great
she knows she young's that corner that's her street corner
this is my favorite place in costa rica so far yeah right the nightlife is kind of fun it's
bustling i made a new friend you see him luis tell me about him he was just like how are you good man
i was like i have two legs two arms i'm breathing i'm walking he's like what else do you need
i was like i don't think anything he's like this is this is paradise i was like
i found it and he was like do you have 500 clones it's like a melting pot that's why it's so unique
that's why it feels like it does because there's people from all over the place
rasta man there's a big community here the rastafarians huh
chicken very caribbean
it's actually kind of a big town it's not big but
it's not just one street like a lot of the other places you can explore
you want to go on a motorcycle ride or you died i'm fine
i wanted to walk
okay