Santiago
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Buenaventura?
I've long lost the thread to whatever happened to Mark and Olivia, the restaurant and nearby homes. What is the current status? Asking for a friend
who will be going by there in a few weeks.
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bajaguy
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Buenaventura
Mark and Olivia's son, Nathan makes a damn good cheeseburger and he has cold beer!!!
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David K
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Jim, they won the case, clean and clear. The judge awarded Olivia the hotel land next door. Muñoz had workers mess up the place in a last bit of
evil. Mark, Olivia, and Nathan have been able to fix up some of the hotel and they rent a couple of rooms there now. I saw them (Mark & Olivia)
last May when the Trail of Missions Recon team stopped there for a bit.
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BajaRun
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I stopped in 3 weeks ago. Nobody around. Honda 2000 was running. Nobody in the restaurant except the Parrot. Place was a mess. Looked like they were
using part of the area as storage, surfboards, bicycles, just basic junk. I hung out for 10 minutes and left. The hotel side looked just like it did 5
years ago. No visible change.
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norte
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All those homes vacant and deteriorating because owners forced out. Motel falling apart after owners forced out. Now the restaurant a mess. How
sad to see it falling apart after taking all that property.
The son is building something else down the road, verdad?
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David K
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It's like two universes here, the real one and this bizarro one!
Nathan posts pretty regularly from there since his return earlier this year... I was there 3 months ago and they were busy and all looked great. The
restaurant had been damaged by a hurricane the year before but was all good this year.
This is the photo of them from August of last year, from the Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/PlayaBuenaventura/
https://www.facebook.com/nathan.burbey
I messaged Nathan for some clarification on this.
[Edited on 8-29-2019 by David K]
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David K
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Reply from Nathan just now:
Hmm I’ll have to check it out but things aren’t run down. I have been in bajamar here about three weeks.
I got back to Buenaventura the beginning of July so was there about a month and a half.
Someone dropped off three bags of dove gear that were on the pool table. Maybe that’s why they bought it looked like a storage area.
My dad put up new lights and Oli put on new table cloths I think it looks nice I’ll put up a picture.
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