1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:22,720 they were willing to sleep in a tent in the jungle to build an action sports resort 4 00:00:24,180 --> 00:00:25,880 and that's what they did 5 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:39,599 so yeah it all started in 2008 my brother Travis and I were living at our 6 00:02:39,599 --> 00:02:43,519 parents house at the time and one day we bought some beers and we 7 00:02:43,519 --> 00:02:47,120 had a meeting in the hot tub about what we wanted to do with the rest 8 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,000 of our lives so that night we did a quick google research 9 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,240 we looked up cheap land for sale around the world and nicaragua came up 10 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,200 we booked two tickets to nicaragua that night 11 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:06,400 and two weeks later we flew down here we are in nicaragua we spent the 12 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,800 first two weeks partying meeting people, we had one goal 13 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,200 on this trip which was to either look for land or buy some land 14 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:18,319 we met a guy just walking down the street and 15 00:03:18,319 --> 00:03:22,239 said he had some property for sale and it had a well and a jungle in the back 16 00:03:22,239 --> 00:03:26,560 we said hey look man we only have a thousand dollars, we went to the atm 17 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,680 we took out a thousand dollars we gave it to him we signed a little 18 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,360 contract then we flew back to Canada. For the next year we 19 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,120 got jobs at a gas station we came up with the business plan 20 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:41,200 we wanted to build the first action sports resort in the world 21 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,239 but we didn't have any money and we didn't know where to start 22 00:03:44,239 --> 00:03:49,360 so, during the one year in Canada that we were working we also posted 23 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,439 online looking for investors. I first met Lucas and Travis through a 24 00:03:53,439 --> 00:03:56,879 mutual friend that had kind of set us up to talk about some business ventures 25 00:03:56,879 --> 00:04:01,840 when we got together i wasn't too sure what to expect, 26 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:06,080 these young guys came through the door they're like 20, 22. 27 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,720 they were probably doubling on a bicycle and they had some drawings in their back pocket 28 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:14,959 and they were asking me to invest in them 29 00:04:14,959 --> 00:04:18,799 so we went from there and we talked about it and we had some similar ideas 30 00:04:18,799 --> 00:04:22,320 and we thought yeah we could probably make this work, once I looked at them and 31 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:23,919 I knew that they had the drive in them that 32 00:04:23,919 --> 00:04:27,040 they could do it that's something that you're basically born with 33 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:32,240 so after the one year was up and we found an investor we went down to Nicaragua 34 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,080 and we started building. 35 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,520 once we got there and we started discussing what was going to happen and what was 36 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,400 going to transpire and started collaborating these ideas 37 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,479 they just started to flow and and we had the exact same idea of what we wanted to 38 00:04:46,479 --> 00:04:49,440 do and same goals to build one of the first action sports 39 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:53,040 resorts in central america. actually in the world. So here we are in 40 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:58,479 nicaragua we bought some five dollar bicycles some machetes 41 00:04:58,479 --> 00:05:02,080 and every day we would bike from san juan del sur 42 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,360 out to the property which is about three kilometers away 43 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,639 and we would just start clearing the land with machetes every day until we 44 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:13,360 realized it's only like five dollars to hire somebody to do it so we started 45 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,639 doing that while we worked on the paintball field in the back 46 00:05:16,639 --> 00:05:21,440 but we found a crew of workers so we started building our first little house 47 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:26,720 it had a zinc roof big gaps between the walls and the roof. There were bugs everywhere 48 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:31,120 had one fan, yeah it sucked but we were starting from the ground up building our dream 49 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:35,039 one day we bought a baby pit bull 50 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,640 we named him buddy we built a mini ramp so we'd skate the 51 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:40,180 mini ramp every single day 52 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:59,940 the mini ramp is only fun for so long so we started building the skateboard park 53 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:03,920 what's up, Bud! 54 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:13,120 This is how we do it at the Surf Ranch! 55 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:51,599 so the first time i went to the Surf Ranch was 56 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,919 February 2011 i was on one of Chico Brenes's 57 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,240 Nicaragua trips, he likes to take a bunch of pros 58 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,560 back to his home state kind of show them what the country's like show them where 59 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,599 he grew up and that you can skate there and 60 00:07:05,599 --> 00:07:09,520 what a cool country it is and i'd been in touch with Travis and 61 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:13,919 Lucas through a friend of mine in orange county and i don't think Chico 62 00:07:13,919 --> 00:07:16,000 knew him but we were going down to san juan del sur 63 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,280 anyways and i'd been in touch with them and i was like let's check out these 64 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,540 guys are opening this surf ranch skate resort it's gonna have a skatepark 65 00:07:22,780 --> 00:07:25,680 I met you know luke and uh travis and i was like yeah we we have 66 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,880 you know this is we're gonna build a skate park over here and we're gonna 67 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,280 you know make it skateable and everything and the first thing I 68 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:35,599 remember that they had was like this manual pad right here that's behind me 69 00:07:35,599 --> 00:07:38,880 and that's what we skated and you know they let us borrow a few surfboards and 70 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,639 everything and we hit the beach and when we came back we were skating the 71 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:45,360 manual pad, and that was like the first thing 72 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,280 that was built pretty much here you know we pulled up there's actually before we 73 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,680 could even get there we had to cross kind of like this little river that a 74 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,680 lot of us got out of the um van, van made it across but it was funny 75 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,000 to shoot photos of that it's me Chico 76 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:02,080 Kenny Anderson, Luis Tolentino, Danny Montoya, Rob G 77 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,520 Mark Stewart was filming John Coltart was another photographer 78 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,199 and i remember like us driving through the jungle 79 00:08:09,199 --> 00:08:12,240 you know there was nothing there we came across the river and 80 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,840 you know we had to drive through the river to get to the other side 81 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:19,039 and i was like oh that's crazy and then that's when we approached lucas and 82 00:08:19,039 --> 00:08:22,160 travis's spot. At first sight you know it wasn't much 83 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,160 you know it was like a small little house and 84 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,160 small manipad and run up so we pulled up and it was literally they had a slab of 85 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,800 concrete poured and a manual pad and that was it 86 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:34,000 but you could skate it and it was metal edge too so we got clips of kenny and 87 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,880 chico skating it lucas and travis had their house they 88 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:41,279 lived in and there was maybe one bungalow that they had started to 89 00:08:41,279 --> 00:08:44,640 build but it wasn't finished yet and other than that it was just a field 90 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:48,480 with kind of like jungle trees beyond it and then and they had it all 91 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,720 mapped out they're like these are gonna be bungalows here 92 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:55,519 there's gonna be paintball back there um you know swimming pool, rock climbing 93 00:08:55,519 --> 00:08:58,959 wall and it sounded like a rad idea but they had a ton of work ahead of them 94 00:08:58,959 --> 00:09:02,480 you know i was like wow these guys are taking a major undertaking 95 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,240 but uh you know a great place to do it like right near the beach in 96 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:10,480 near san juan del sur in Nica. Travelling down the river 97 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:14,560 okay river crossing time, with four pallets 98 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:18,480 two by fours this is what we do every day ten times a day 99 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,120 okay hold on 100 00:09:22,180 --> 00:09:25,440 take a little left turn, this is how we 101 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,380 can go this way this is how we get to our house, ok go! 102 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,760 at this point we were running out of money so we needed to figure out how to 103 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:44,080 make more money one day i bought this internet stick 104 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:48,320 i was in the little house sitting on a bucket and i had my laptop on this 105 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:51,680 wooden desk and i started playing online poker 106 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:54,640 my brother came in he had two girls with them they wanted 107 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,240 me to go party with them and i was like no no i'm gonna play online poker 108 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,920 this tournament lasted for about 16 hours 109 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:06,000 and i ended up going to the the beach during that day 110 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:10,240 in the morning and i came back at around six o'clock he was still on his computer 111 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:15,120 and he said he's he was up and i ended up winning like four thousand 112 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:18,160 dollars that was the money we used to buy paintball guns 113 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:23,420 we had them shipped down to the property and we opened up the paintball course 114 00:10:56,640 --> 00:11:00,860 a video....video....no video 115 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:41,200 we first met luke and travis in granada when we were at 116 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:46,000 a hostel called the bearded monkey we ended up having a few drinks with 117 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,320 them that night and we were out on one of the main 118 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:55,360 streets and one of the guys we were with saw 119 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,880 somebody steal a camera right off the table 120 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:05,040 across from us from another tourist and the guys actually ended up running and 121 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:09,600 chasing down this guy caught him and 122 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,839 got this girl's camera back so that was kind of our funny story for 123 00:12:13,839 --> 00:12:18,399 how we met them we ended up going to san juan 124 00:12:18,399 --> 00:12:25,440 a few days later and who was there again we ran into luke and travis 125 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,639 and at that time we're staying in a hostel 126 00:12:28,639 --> 00:12:32,720 in san juan a few days later all of a sudden we had 127 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:39,360 bought a mattress and we were living in luke and travis's unfinished house on 128 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,120 the floor in their kitchen because it was a one bedroom house and 129 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,560 luke and travis were living or sleeping in 130 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:50,399 the one bedroom and then we were actually 131 00:12:50,399 --> 00:12:53,440 sleeping in the kitchen of their unfinished house 132 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,279 we i guess thought that was a great idea at the time 133 00:12:57,279 --> 00:13:02,880 all four of us were outside having a barbecue kind of in and out of 134 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:07,040 the house and all of a sudden all four of us went 135 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:10,880 into the house for one reason or the other and i remember 136 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:16,000 turning around and these three guys 137 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:22,800 in bella clavas all walked in to the house and two of them had knives 138 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:28,959 and one of them had a gun and right away luke was in the kitchen and 139 00:13:28,959 --> 00:13:33,680 he says we're getting robbed being the only girl 140 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:38,160 there was a kind of a few other thoughts going through my mind at the time 141 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:42,560 and i remember i didn't want to go towards the bedroom because that just 142 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:48,560 kind of meant danger for me so i was almost relieved actually when they kept 143 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:52,880 me with the boys and we all went down 144 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:57,600 like face down in the kitchen head like hands behind our head and 145 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,639 they're pointing the gun at us and someone just keeps saying 146 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:04,200 dinero, dinero, dinero, they just didn't believe us 147 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:08,160 so then they just started digging through all of our stuff 148 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:12,800 while the one guy kind of sat over top of us with the gun pointed 149 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,880 to all of our heads while we were face down in the kitchen 150 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:20,800 so they took our camera i remember they came over to me 151 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,240 and i had a couple silver rings on my fingers and they took 152 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,920 took the rings right off my fingers they took 153 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,760 everything down to the electric shaver that the boys 154 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:38,880 had in the bathroom and then one by one they put us all into the shower 155 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:44,320 of this bathroom and then so we're all four of us huddled up in 156 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:48,320 the shower and they with the guns still pointed at 157 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:52,959 our heads and they throw a blanket over our heads and we're 158 00:14:52,959 --> 00:14:54,959 all kind of sitting there under this blanket 159 00:14:54,959 --> 00:15:02,560 nobody's saying anything and um and then they leave 160 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:08,959 and we're like okay like when when can we like when can we get up so 161 00:15:08,959 --> 00:15:12,800 i don't remember how long we ended up sitting there 162 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:18,320 for um because they didn't have a car like we believe that they came on foot 163 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,480 so we couldn't really hear if if they were still there so we probably 164 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:26,800 sat maybe 10 minutes until we figured out that 165 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:30,880 they were gone and so we're all kind of a little worked 166 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:35,440 up by this point and luke and travis 167 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,920 for some reason jump in the car and they go we need to we need to find them 168 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,040 so they jump in the truck and they're driving up and down the road trying to 169 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:47,040 find these three people and they never obviously they never did 170 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:50,000 find them so we went to the police the next day 171 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:55,759 and nothing ever really came of it and like that was uh that was the end of 172 00:15:55,759 --> 00:15:59,040 our stay in nicaragua i think we packed up 173 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:01,279 our stuff and left it was the next day or 174 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:05,040 the day after that and continued on down south um 175 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,800 down to costa rica. The next day we rented a hotel 176 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,360 in the capital city and then a day after we flew back to canada 177 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,040 because we were too scared 178 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,880 so we went back to canada and back to our parents house 179 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,380 we had to get jobs again. So this park got 180 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:59,260 flooded all the trees fell down check it out 181 00:17:13,120 --> 00:17:18,940 500 dollar fine, do not pass if we get busted, pay 500 bucks 182 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:24,120 we are passing. 183 00:17:32,580 --> 00:17:34,960 after three months of working at the car 184 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:40,080 auction cleaning cars we're like yeah i don't want to do this anymore and we 185 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,600 can't let these kids that robbed us ruin our dream 186 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:47,200 so we said you know what let's go back to nicaragua 187 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,120 and finish what we started 188 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:59,039 so here we are back in nicaragua and this time we came full 189 00:17:59,039 --> 00:18:04,720 force every day we work on the property and we started building the rest of the 190 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,559 units the standard rooms the villas we 191 00:18:08,559 --> 00:18:11,840 finished up the skateboard park one of the workers grabbed our 192 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:17,440 skateboards and they drew penises on his face, and he skated around the skatepark 193 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:32,560 first try ready, first try ever 194 00:20:35,780 --> 00:20:37,040 Ready for this.... 195 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,820 If I was a backpacker, I would stay here. 196 00:20:46,660 --> 00:20:48,440 why would you stay here? 197 00:20:48,740 --> 00:20:49,780 because it's amazing! 198 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,480 because you got Marvin doing 360s 199 00:20:58,140 --> 00:20:58,920 nice 200 00:21:03,540 --> 00:21:05,480 there's the surf ranch for you 201 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:11,200 we also bought this big giant airbag from china. Once we got the airbag 202 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,200 we wanted to jump off of it and there was no tower so we put a ladder up to it 203 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,039 and i climbed up on the top and jumped off the 204 00:21:17,039 --> 00:21:20,159 ladder the ladder kicked out and hit the truck but i 205 00:21:20,159 --> 00:21:26,080 managed to jump onto the airbag so it works. We turned our old water 206 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,440 tower into a tower that you can jump off of into 207 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:30,680 the airbag 208 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,740 my dad was the first one to jump off of it and he did a belly flop first try 209 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,120 and after my dad did it everyone else wanted to do it so 210 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:48,640 one day we had this big event we just invited 211 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,160 everybody from all the hostels in town and it was crazy 212 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,360 so after we had the airbag competition we started focusing on 213 00:22:55,460 --> 00:22:57,160 finishing the skatepark 214 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:34,240 just finished the rest of the units we finished the villas the standard rooms 215 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,280 the deluxe condos we've finished the pool 216 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:38,880 the restaurant 217 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,260 it needs some wax 218 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,113 there we go, wax the down ledge as well. 219 00:24:02,113 --> 00:24:03,640 Just a little bit. 220 00:24:33,919 --> 00:24:37,279 all these people that we knew in town we had them 221 00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:43,279 come out and we had a pool party one day we hired everybody that we knew and we 222 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:44,640 opened up 223 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,480 if you're planning ahead and looking for some hot destinations we've invited 224 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,120 lifestyle bloggers sasha devoetz to the program 225 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:43,760 okay now this was an article that you were just mentioning to me in the 226 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,880 commercial break that you wrote about nicaragua and it 227 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:51,200 really picked up uh yeah it just went huge and i think one of the reasons for 228 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,600 that is that there's this misrepresentation around nicaragua that 229 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:00,080 it's a dangerous place but actually that is in the past for 230 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,799 them now there's a really great resort owned by 231 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:07,280 two canadians from kelowna and it's the Surf Ranch Hotel 232 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:12,320 and Resort, and it has everything from skateboard parks to yoga 233 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,200 to hanging out by the pool and accommodations you know one of the 234 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,200 reasons that my article went so viral is because so many people have visited 235 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,960 there and they wanted other people to know how special that place was right 236 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:24,680 yeah okay cool 237 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:50,480 so we just lost the drone into the jungle we gotta go find it 238 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,799 i got to download the map, it's like... i think it's over there in the bushes 239 00:27:54,799 --> 00:27:58,080 up top on the other side of the road? yeah 240 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,580 alright, lets go find it. okay. 241 00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:02,720 time is against us, we gotta 242 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,140 find it before someone else finds it 243 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,120 that's the last known location. In this field? 244 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,560 ya 150 feet in there. 245 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,600 we have to get in there somehow? 246 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,640 with all the chickens? so we asked the 247 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,919 neighbors where it was they said they saw it 248 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,920 and then after they said no no we don't know where it is 249 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,000 so we're going to jump the fence. So we got close enough to see 250 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:35,120 where we are and it looks like it crashed right inside some bushes 251 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:37,440 and these guys over here looking for it let's go find it 252 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:02,559 when i looked at them i saw two kids that you know they had it together and 253 00:29:02,559 --> 00:29:05,360 they had goals and dreams and they were willing to do whatever it 254 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,279 took to put it together and that's something that 255 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:10,799 not everybody has in them how many people are willing to go live in a tent 256 00:29:10,799 --> 00:29:14,640 in the jungle and focus on a dream for five years 257 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,080 that most people are going to tell them that isn't going to happen 258 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,799 I first heard of Surf Ranch through a buddy i worked with at an 259 00:29:20,799 --> 00:29:25,120 outdoor store back home in tennessee he told me he was like an investor and 260 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,480 something down there and that we should go and i was like you 261 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:33,120 know what i got some free time no worries so we went down there for 262 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,120 probably close to two weeks or something like that and it was amazing i was 263 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,919 i'd never been there before and just being able to go down there and surf in 264 00:29:41,919 --> 00:29:45,919 a new spot and just see a different country and 265 00:29:45,919 --> 00:29:49,360 um it was special to me it's something that i think about all the time when i 266 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,720 first met luke and travis it was awesome i think i 267 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,720 met him that day that i got there and we all got to hang and then i think 268 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:00,559 immediately we started planning a little surf mission to Popoyo 269 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,640 I found the website through someone's 270 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,480 recommendation found the package that was available through the surf ranch 271 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,840 my wife and i were both overseas at the time 272 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:13,360 and we were looking for a cool little vacation a cool little 273 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,399 uh adventure thing to do instead of just sitting at 274 00:30:16,399 --> 00:30:19,919 a regular hotel and drinking pina coladas kind of place 275 00:30:19,919 --> 00:30:24,080 by the time it was all said and done we had talked to lucas and travis enough 276 00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,039 times about the surf ranch and their plans 277 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:32,320 that we just ended up investing in the initial location in san juan del sur 278 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,380 buying two of the units. 279 00:30:34,540 --> 00:30:35,200 It didn't really 280 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:41,760 feel like we accomplished anything until we had our first big 281 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,120 party with a group called free and easy from canada 282 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,240 there's about 300 to 400 people and that day 283 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,760 i was like okay, like we, we did it we did it 284 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,320 Tits out for the boys...tits out for the boys. 285 00:31:43,660 --> 00:31:47,140 Tits out for the boys...tits out for the boys. 286 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,880 Tits out for the boys...tits out for the boys. 287 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,260 Tits out for the boys...tits out for the boys. 288 00:31:55,020 --> 00:31:59,600 So, after we opened, the name got pretty big. 289 00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:06,160 and we continued our business relationship with Chico Brenes 290 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,480 who brought professional skateboarders down 291 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:16,560 originally, so at this point we were flying down pros three times a year 292 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:23,039 and we teamed up with chico to start the first skateboard camp in 293 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,680 central america the first time i heard about the Surf Ranch 294 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,320 was from a fellow skateboarder of mine 295 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,919 named chico brenes he had been talking about the surf ranch for a long time so 296 00:32:31,919 --> 00:32:36,960 we went there and and i really had no um no expectations 297 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:42,240 all i knew is that it was you know kind of like a beach town and and 298 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,519 uh i was super excited and then when we got there 299 00:32:45,519 --> 00:32:50,320 it was just like it blew my mind like what they did with the property and 300 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,600 how everything was set up with the skate park 301 00:32:53,600 --> 00:33:00,080 and they had a rock climbing wall and a pool and a swim up bar and 302 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,399 it was just it was unbelievable it was it was amazing 303 00:33:04,399 --> 00:33:11,519 so the first time i heard about the surf ranch was 304 00:33:11,519 --> 00:33:17,279 through chico so when uh jose rojo told me that he was going to 305 00:33:17,279 --> 00:33:20,159 nicaragua with chico because chico would always go down every 306 00:33:20,159 --> 00:33:23,120 i think he probably still does he goes down every year i guess to do these 307 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:27,360 things he just had one um he brings a couple dudes down 308 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,799 usually and we go they go skating and go to the 309 00:33:30,799 --> 00:33:34,240 surf ranch i told him i was i'm in i wanted to go because i've never been 310 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:38,480 to nicaragua before and you know i'm always down for a new 311 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,159 place so uh when i hit cheeks up he was like yeah 312 00:33:42,159 --> 00:33:46,000 absolutely so i was in my name is chico brenes i was 313 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:51,360 born here in nicaragua i left uh to the united states in 1985 314 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,600 it was like during the whole revolution and during the war that was happening 315 00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,160 you know i remember i was living in uh in the capital in Managua 316 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,720 with my aunts and everybody and i was going to school over there when 317 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:08,560 everything was going on and they were recruiting like small 318 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:13,119 kids to go fight you know and i was 10 years old at the time but i was a little 319 00:34:13,119 --> 00:34:15,839 bit taller so my mom got scared that they were 320 00:34:15,839 --> 00:34:19,040 gonna just recruit me and take me so she was like 321 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:22,960 you know let's go to the states so over the years we stayed in touch via email 322 00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,679 and they would send me updates on how the ranch was coming 323 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:30,080 along and then when it finally opened and uh you know i plugged it for them on 324 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,639 transworld because i thought it looked rad and like who 325 00:34:32,639 --> 00:34:36,159 wouldn't want to go to nicaragua on vacation to skate and surf 326 00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:38,960 but in the photos they would email me i couldn't believe it was the same place 327 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,440 it looked amazing and they said you know we're gonna be 328 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,000 doing uh these skate camps with chico and his shop Central 329 00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,400 the first skate camp that we did at the surf ranch was in 2013 330 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,200 you know and they already had the park and everything like set up and 331 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,720 everything so we did a demo for the kids we had a contest for the kids you know 332 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,460 the first one that we did it was good like a lot of people showed up 333 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,600 I was surprised of all the people that came out of like everywhere 334 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:29,200 even from you know neighboring countries like Costa Rica, El Salvador people just 335 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,960 came out of the woodworks right it was crazy and i was like whoa man you 336 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:36,400 know maybe this could work we started bringing you 337 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,599 know pros and all kinds of people and doing demos for the kids and everything 338 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:44,560 we brought over 30 professionals here to Nicaragua 339 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,880 gift from the gods...gift from the gods. 340 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:49,900 Cheers! 341 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,720 we skated with the different skate campers that were there, skated the park 342 00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:40,680 pretty much every night in the evening when it cooled off 343 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,839 honestly the trip that we took to nicaragua it being my first time like 344 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:04,480 it was the best it was probably one of my favorite trips i've ever been on and 345 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:08,640 i've been a pro skateboarder for going on 20 years. 346 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:14,960 Yeah the surf ranch was rad nice dudes i'd definitely go back 347 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,800 I can't speak highly enough of Lucas and Travis because what they 348 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:23,119 did with the property and and just how the hospitality and 349 00:37:23,119 --> 00:37:29,280 everybody that worked there was just so kind and so just 350 00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,320 it was just amazing i mean i would recommend this place to 351 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:33,760 anybody, anybody 352 00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:36,560 and sure enough man, it looked as good as it did 353 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,920 in the emails and photos it was insane it's just they have the pool 354 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:43,839 and the bar and uh the rock wall super nice apartments with 355 00:37:43,839 --> 00:37:47,440 air conditioning the skate park is super fun 356 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,400 like bungalows with rooftops you can hang out on everyone that worked there 357 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,320 was cool good food they'll take you into town 358 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,520 they'll take you to the different beaches to surf 359 00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,240 it's insane it's really impressive. 360 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,520 After the skate camp 361 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,560 a big group of white water rafters booked out the whole resort 362 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,680 and we ended up partying with them one of the people 363 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,120 in this group was Melinda Clarke, an actress from Hollywood 364 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,300 and our friend from Canada, Tom, he was down here at the time 365 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,320 yeah we just got along really well and Melinda 366 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,680 actually invited us to her wedding in California 367 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:42,960 so our friend Tom, my brother and I, we said yeah let's go to California we've 368 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:45,780 never been before so let's go check it out 369 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:55,440 we rented a red Camaro and drove down to Dana point 370 00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:28,920 we could of took that train all the way back! 371 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:02,480 made the journey to be here with them especially on this most gorgeous day 372 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,800 her parents live one mile up the beach in a beautiful home 373 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:11,640 my better self my good angel I am bound to you. 374 00:40:57,839 --> 00:41:00,960 after going to california and seeing all these huge resorts 375 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:05,680 and nice houses we kind of got the inspiration to go back 376 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:10,000 and build the biggest resort in nicaragua we talked to our investors at 377 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:15,920 the first resort to see if anybody was interested in helping us buy the land 378 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:20,400 so after we decided to invest in the first place 379 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,680 we saw that they were trying to branch out and kind of create a real brand for 380 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:27,200 themselves and that once again just the whole 381 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,480 kindred spirit we were just like man that's really cool so now they're 382 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:34,160 they're not just focusing on this one resort, they're trying to have multiple 383 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:39,680 locations and really make it a uh maybe not global but at least a regional 384 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:43,440 brand and we're just like well that's really cool you know and just 385 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,960 investing in that whole area gathering more land 386 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:51,680 more resorts all that kind of stuff we we went ahead and we did all of that 387 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:56,240 in hopes that obviously one day it'll be a giant brand and we'll be 388 00:41:56,240 --> 00:42:01,920 super successful, I will say one thing about that the it's funny because you 389 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:06,880 know you always have these people who in your life who they 390 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,760 they don't have the vision so with that lack of vision they're just like i can't 391 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,359 believe you do that it's so it's so crazy and maybe it is a little 392 00:42:13,359 --> 00:42:17,520 bit crazy but then you know who's ever gotten anything done 393 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,119 by playing it safe you know being risk takers is 394 00:42:21,119 --> 00:42:25,280 really what has separated those who are successful 395 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:29,920 from those who just kind of follow the curve and just kind of go 396 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,960 with the flow so we kind of think the idea of being movers 397 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,800 and shakers is kind of cool and that's why we have 398 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:41,760 done what we've done we decided to invest in the land because 399 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,119 i mean first of all who doesn't want to invest in a beautiful country 400 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:49,839 um on a giant 25 acre piece of property overlooking the pacific ocean 401 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:54,800 I mean just just on paper alone it's like a dream come true 402 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:59,359 and the fact that it was it was even more untouched than 403 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,880 san juan del sur location there was just so much potential there is so much 404 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,960 potential in that area and driving around and seeing 405 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,800 seeing what it is now or what it was a few years ago and being able to 406 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,860 picture what it can become in the future is extremely exciting 407 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,760 so this is the land, just put the down deposit on it 408 00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:33,120 it's got a 180 degree view of the ocean 409 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:39,340 and it's sick. I'm standing up on the top area there's the truck down there 410 00:43:39,460 --> 00:43:41,359 this is where all the condos are going 411 00:43:41,359 --> 00:43:46,400 to go all around here we bought 25 acres out in Popoyo, we made a design 412 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,920 online and we started building this house 413 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:19,840 pretty much after that we sold the second house we started building that as well. 414 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,520 we're building the first two houses in Popoyo. 415 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:30,720 we're almost halfway check it out, I can't wait until this is done man it's 416 00:44:30,720 --> 00:44:31,940 gonna be sick 417 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,640 we sold the third house and then we sold the fourth house 418 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:06,640 the year is 2015 and we're building our second resort 419 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,680 Surf Ranch Popoyo, check it out! 420 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:58,480 we're heading out to Popoyo, check on the guys 421 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:06,240 they're building the the gypsum on the ceiling and also putting on the roof 422 00:46:06,240 --> 00:46:14,000 on house one, we have a couple of guys building uh the third lot 423 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:18,000 there's about five machines out there so we're gonna go check up on those guys 424 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:19,580 and see how everything's going 425 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:14,120 so how do you fly that thing 426 00:47:18,020 --> 00:47:19,340 controller 427 00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:56,080 uhhh, it's still good, still good 428 00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,700 oh it's gonna be good footage 429 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,160 We're standing on house one, over here is house two 430 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:08,500 and right now we're building house three 431 00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:16,540 well this is the master sala. 432 00:48:17,740 --> 00:48:20,000 Let's see if these all work. 433 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,740 open it up good to go 434 00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:27,320 come on there guys i'll show you around 435 00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:33,680 come on to the master bedroom here, there you have your master bed 436 00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:37,140 Let's check out this 437 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:41,900 come on out let's check out the pool 438 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,120 bam! three houses down 439 00:49:30,540 --> 00:49:33,200 I'm driving from san juan del sur out to 440 00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:37,200 Popoyo. I got some materials in the back 441 00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:41,920 some brooms, nails, wire, so i got to drop it off 442 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,839 because the guys ran out of materials we've got to make sure everyone has 443 00:49:45,839 --> 00:49:50,880 everything they need we had all four houses sold and we were 444 00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:54,400 finishing them up we were building them and we were almost done 445 00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:58,240 but when everything seems to be going good bad things happen 446 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:08,480 one day we were driving out to Popoyo, and there's a huge fire on the hill 447 00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:14,160 making its way down towards the houses so that was kind of the first sign 448 00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:17,280 of bad things to come a few days after that 449 00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,660 we went to Managua 450 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:27,280 and Travis and i were getting lunch at hard rock cafe, we were sitting outside 451 00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,340 on the patio and then all of a sudden.... 452 00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:32,260 the roof caved in! 453 00:50:32,420 --> 00:50:33,880 This just collapsed over me and Luke. 454 00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:40,559 within a second we jumped it was just reflexes, we made it but it 455 00:50:40,559 --> 00:50:46,720 still hit us it cut us up a bit so at that point we were like okay 456 00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:51,520 bad things are coming and shortly after that what happened with travis's truck 457 00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:55,900 so i bought a brand new truck it was a ford ranger 2017. 458 00:50:56,060 --> 00:51:01,520 One day i was driving to managua and the gas throttle was just stuck 459 00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:05,359 and i looked behind me in my rear mirror and there was smoke everywhere 460 00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:09,280 this guy just happens to pull over suddenly the whole truck 461 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:14,560 is engulfed in smoke! so he's not hot dogging it? this is like the gas has gotten 462 00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,280 stuck down or something that's correct according to the poster 463 00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:21,520 he said that he was driving along when suddenly he says the accelerator 464 00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:25,119 stuck that's when he pulled over was able to put it in park 465 00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:29,200 set the emergency brake and get out but you can hear the thing revving like crazy 466 00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:33,119 and the smoke that you're seeing isn't coming from the tires it's coming 467 00:51:33,119 --> 00:51:36,640 from something that's called diesel engine runaway things like this 468 00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,960 typically don't happen anymore but basically 469 00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:42,000 what's gone wrong is some sort of engine fuel mixture 470 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,680 and is revving the engine out of control according to some things i read on the 471 00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,319 internet just turning the car off doesn't stop the engine 472 00:51:48,319 --> 00:51:52,720 basically what you have to do is smother the engine co2 fire extinguishers can 473 00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:54,960 take away the oxygen from the engine and that can 474 00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:58,480 sometimes get the engine to cut out or what i believe to happen in this case 475 00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:02,480 is it just burns itself out eventually that revving stops and 476 00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:05,760 the smoke clears do you replace the whole engine or do you need a whole new 477 00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:08,720 car i think it's a brand new car you take that right back to the dealership 478 00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:12,319 and say we've got an issue i didn't know if the truck was going to 479 00:52:12,319 --> 00:52:16,160 blow up or not my girlfriend and i were in the truck and so i pulled 480 00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:20,559 over to the side i tried to turn the ignition off but it 481 00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:25,200 just kept smoking and the smoke started entering the vehicle so we both got out 482 00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,760 and just she ran forwards and i ran backwards and 483 00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:29,800 i ended up filming the whole thing 484 00:52:33,620 --> 00:52:37,040 The civil war in 2018 broke out, 485 00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:40,720 we already had tickets booked to go to Japan. 486 00:52:40,720 --> 00:52:45,520 In order to get to Japan we had a drive to the Managua airport, they would build 487 00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,480 these roadblocks there were guys on the street writing all 488 00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:52,079 over our windows tires were burning everywhere all the 489 00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:56,240 roads were blocked so we had to go through the jungles all the way to 490 00:52:56,240 --> 00:52:57,420 Managua 491 00:52:58,520 --> 00:52:59,620 It was crazy! 492 00:52:59,780 --> 00:53:01,940 I got to Managua first. I was 493 00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:07,520 in my hotel and just outside the hotel there's this like big flower statues 494 00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,640 that the government built and everybody was 495 00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:14,319 tearing them down there's probably like 200 to 300 people 496 00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:18,560 and they were sawing this big statue down so i was in my hotel room i was 497 00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,319 filming the whole thing by the time i got downstairs people were jumping on it 498 00:53:22,319 --> 00:53:24,640 so we went across the road to this little pub 499 00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:28,880 it was pretty full people were drinking so we started drinking and 500 00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:35,680 i see on the tv behind my brother i see the statue falling repeatedly over 501 00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:38,480 and over and then i look closely and there's a 502 00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:44,000 guy running the statue fell on him and killed them 503 00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,640 the next day we flew out to Japan 504 00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:20,640 walking the back streets in Japan 505 00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:42,360 what did we find here? 506 00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:08,880 it was pretty fun in japan we got to explore a new culture 507 00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:14,799 and get some ideas for our future hotels so our two-week trip was up and we had 508 00:55:14,799 --> 00:55:17,839 to fly back to Nicaragua but at this point 509 00:55:17,839 --> 00:55:21,599 the whole country was crazy so we couldn't fly back to 510 00:55:21,599 --> 00:55:26,160 nicaragua we had to divert our flight to costa rica and here 511 00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:30,160 i am again for the fourth time since the regime's 512 00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:35,760 crackdown on the nicaraguan people began on april 18th because i believe that it 513 00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:39,359 is vital now more than ever for the united states 514 00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:43,520 to support the people of nicaragua in its fight to 515 00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:45,680 re-establish democratic order 516 00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:47,440 We flew to Costa Rica 517 00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,560 with just our backpacks on same feeling as when we went to 518 00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:52,120 Nicaragua for the first time. 519 00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:22,319 we didn't know that we were gonna be stuck in costa rica for the next 520 00:56:22,319 --> 00:56:26,079 six months so during that time we had an idea 521 00:56:26,079 --> 00:56:30,160 to build an automated hotel so we spent the first few months in 522 00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:33,920 tamarindo costa rica trying to find a lease on a hotel 523 00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:39,599 that maybe we could renovate and open up we found a good deal on this hotel it 524 00:56:39,599 --> 00:56:42,880 was a seven unit apartment building with a 525 00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:47,500 restaurant that was attached to it so we bought it and we started renovating. 526 00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,400 so with both the restaurant and the hotel combined 527 00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:29,680 Surf Ranch has become very popular we were full every single day 528 00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:33,600 Travis's friend that he met back in Canada he invited him down 529 00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:36,960 to do a promotional commercial for the hotel 530 00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:40,160 he came down and yeah he filmed the hotel 531 00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:42,020 and a bunch of activities that we offer 532 00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:20,720 and just their family is just such a um such a they just have such a warm vibe 533 00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:23,920 and such a welcoming vibe and we stay i don't 534 00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,640 remember one night we stayed up with them until 535 00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:30,319 i don't remember late but it was just so cool to see 536 00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:34,559 that family vibe and it translates into the way that they run their 537 00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:38,880 hotel it's just such a welcoming place and then Nicaragua got better 538 00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:42,000 and people started traveling back to nicaragua 539 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:46,080 so now that we had the first resort in san juan del sur which we opened up again. 540 00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:50,000 we had the surf ranch in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. 541 00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,040 Now it's time to go back to Nicaragua 542 00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:55,420 and finish Surf Ranch Popoyo. 543 01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:42,559 well since it was rainy season too a lot of houses were being flooded 544 01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:46,320 a lot of people didn't have work, less tourism now 545 01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:51,920 so before we opened up we decided to give back to the community, go hand 546 01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:54,640 deliver food to all the houses in the area 547 01:00:54,740 --> 01:00:56,320 and just help people out 548 01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:35,119 once we felt comfortable we opened up the resorts again 549 01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:38,240 and we started building in Popoyo, it's time to 550 01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:42,400 start on the apartment complex and one of the largest buildings on 551 01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:43,760 the coast of Nicaragua. 552 01:01:55,360 --> 01:02:00,880 Welcome to the surf ranch I'm at the Popoyo site and we're about 553 01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:05,520 to begin construction on the apartments so as you can see behind me there's 554 01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:09,560 nothing here whole resort it's nothing 555 01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:16,420 so the apartment's going to go right here 556 01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:23,280 and then over here the pool yeah it's gonna be cool man looking back 557 01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:25,000 at this when everything's done 558 01:02:25,820 --> 01:02:28,000 we started the same process as we did with 559 01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:32,260 the houses got the machineries there leveled up the whole area built the foundation 560 01:02:34,580 --> 01:02:39,800 I am standing on top of the world man, this is going to be the Condos. 561 01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:43,280 right now it's just all dirt. 562 01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:44,360 Ride em Cowboy! 563 01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:56,480 I'm out here in Popoyo, we just finished the the lots for the apartment it's 564 01:02:56,480 --> 01:03:01,280 gonna be 180 feet long by 60 feet wide 565 01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:05,520 yeah it looks like they did a good job. It's gonna be 18 units 566 01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:08,400 yeah it's looking good because right behind me you can see the lot, 567 01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:12,240 it's pretty big so we have a lot of work ahead of us so 568 01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:15,119 once you enter the reception you come up the stairs and then you enter the 569 01:03:15,119 --> 01:03:17,599 apartments which are gonna be right behind me 570 01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:20,660 so everything at the resort's gonna have ocean view 571 01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:25,000 and uh yeah it's like feels like you're on top of the world 572 01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,880 should I fly it across here, or go high, then fly it this way? 573 01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,820 Travis just flew the drone, crashed it. 574 01:04:13,940 --> 01:04:18,080 two thousand dollars down the drain gotta find it now 575 01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,580 GoPro smashed, this doesn't move. 576 01:04:31,900 --> 01:04:33,220 It's on its last life. 577 01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:55,200 we have four houses done we're just about to start on uh 578 01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:58,559 put the walls up on the apartment so as you can see right now 579 01:04:58,559 --> 01:05:01,839 you see all the blocks we have they're making progress 580 01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:03,180 yeah here check it out 581 01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:10,160 we started building the apartment complex same idea as kind of what we did 582 01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:12,559 in san juan del sur we would sell the units 583 01:05:12,559 --> 01:05:18,319 online to people on Facebook, eBay, Craigslist, one by one 584 01:05:18,319 --> 01:05:20,480 we sold them and we used that money to 585 01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:22,000 build the apartment complex 586 01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:52,040 you know what if it was any bigger i could hang onto here and you could lift me up. 587 01:07:52,740 --> 01:07:55,140 It's kind of crazy to see that this used to be... 588 01:07:55,740 --> 01:07:58,240 all dirt when we first came and scouted 589 01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:00,900 out the property and now we have it up 590 01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:07,520 three-story building, all right so we've done one of the units one of the 591 01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:11,119 apartment units and today we're just gonna start 592 01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:14,440 furnishing it up let's check it out 593 01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:26,560 looking back onto it how this all started 594 01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:29,840 where it was just an idea in a hot tub 595 01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,520 of getting out of our comfort zone 596 01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:52,319 it's definitely a place i would go back to like every year you know 597 01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:56,080 depending on the season you could go when it's surf, surf season skate and surf. 598 01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:59,359 You could go when it's winter here so you're just 599 01:08:59,359 --> 01:09:03,520 chilling in the warmth i mean i recommend it to anybody that i 600 01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:08,640 you know know or ask about nicaragua because i mean i 601 01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:12,000 i can't wait to go back there, i'll go back there in a heartbeat 602 01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:15,359 yeah it's just some really amazing memories and 603 01:09:15,359 --> 01:09:19,440 it's just amazing to see what you know luke and travis have done 604 01:09:19,440 --> 01:09:22,719 and it just feels like an amazing surf trip every time you go there so yeah i 605 01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:23,960 can't wait to get back down 606 01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:21,240 Did you get the video? Ya dude it was awesome. 607 01:11:21,620 --> 01:11:23,220 so what do you want to do now? 608 01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:26,280 film the next one! alright let's go.