2003 - Main lodge building construction
September 13, 2007 Filed in: Story
2003 rolls along and the construction on the main
building continues. We are expecting our first child in
our tenth year of marriage. Interior work begins on the
cabanas. Jim and Jay move in to the staff quarters
building and out of the rancho – still camping but more
like in a trailer rather than in a tent. Jim sleeps in
the staff quarters and Jay sleeps in a tent in one of
the unfinished cabanas so that they both might have an
ounce of privacy. I make my last trip down to Panama
before the birth of our child and then go back to
Houston to do contract work. I find out I have
Gestational Diabetes and must watch literally
everything that enters my mouth so that I do not grow
too big a baby and put it at risk. While work as a
contractor was more lucrative it was also much harder.
I move into a garage apartment at my in-law’s house as
we think that it will be necessary to move out of Jay’s
house soon after the baby is born so it is much easier
to move pre baby rather than after the baby is born.
James III (aka Tres) is born on November 4, 2003. We
send a second container full of stuff down to Panama
one week after Tres is born. The guys start on all of
the infrastructure work to tie the lodge facilities
together.