Turns out that shipping a container from Colombia isn’t so easy after all. A massive effort by the Colombian authorities to crack down on drug trafficking results in five inspections between the manufacturer’s warehouse and the port. Finally, the container is loaded onto the ship and we pray that it will get through customs quickly and we will see our house before we have to return to the states.
Turns out that receiving a container in Costa Rica isn’t so easy after all. As this is the first house of its kind to be imported into this country, authorities had no idea how to assess the container’s contents and hold it for 3 more days.
Leaving on Friday and pretty much resigned to the fact that we will not see the house before we go, and then it happens… Thursday morning we get the call. The container had arrived… with the unmarked pieces of 3 separate houses. In a matter of hours the pieces were sorted out and we had our house. Game on!
