Total miles: 5043
Mongo's
After breakfast at Mango's bar and restaurant we split up for various shopping task. Jim and Max are looking for motor oil and headlight bulbs I'm after sunglasses and wine. Costa Rica is fairly angloized. ATM's ask if you want local currency or us dollars shops will convert prices it's all pretty easy.
Short ride today to find Frits and Mayela's place. These are friends who now live around Carcross during the summer and have places here for the winter. Jim made the connection with them last summer in Skagway, I meet them at Bruce and Hanna Schindler's Skagway wedding party.
Frits is Dutch who immigrated to the Yukon 20 years ago first running his own canoe outfitting business then working as a carpenter, cook or whatever he could do to stay in the Yukon.
Frits and Mayela
His wife, Mayela is from Costa Rica. They met down here while Frits was exploring the area, a great love story.
Their place down here is pretty neat. They have also built a small restaurant and day resort, complete with a Tilapia farm and citrus groove.
After Jim and Max finished they're oil changes and maintenance we headed out to check out to the restaurant for a dinner.
Chuck and Marilyn, from Caribou Crossing in Carcross join us for dinner. Together with Frits and Mayela they have purchased some acreage, sub divided it up, built the restaurant and set themselves up to skip the Yukon winters.....
Jim, Frits, Max at the Tilapia pond
Great dinner of fried Tilapia, stories and conversation.
Off to bed. ILUF
Tomorrow is planned to be a beach day.
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