Discovering Hone Creek

I remember when we started to look at properties on the Caribbean side of Costa Rica. most of the properties near the beach, were out of our price range. The ones that seemed most affordable seemed to be located in a place called Hone Creek. Trouble was, we couldn't even find Hone Creek on the map! Sometimes we would find a place called Hotel Creek, sometimes a Home Creek, but very rarely Hone Creek. So here it is, 3 years later, and Hone Creek is turning into one of the "hottest" areas in this part of the Caribbean. The epi-center, if you will, is at a "Y" in the highway. One fork leads to the north to Limon and San Jose, the other fork leads to BriBri and Panama, and the last one leads to the beaches of Puerto Viejo and the Gandoca-Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge. Buses are frequent in all directions along this route and taxis are becoming plentiful as well. This strategic location has made Hone Creek the perfect spot for the area hospital/clinic, large grade school, 2 large grocery stores, and a modern, well-supplied hardware & building supply store. This was all here when we left in October. Now, 6 months later, there is a multi-bay service station (see ohoto), an internet cafe (that's Gordie sitting outside using their WiFi), there is a bakery, a new soccer field with adjacent restaurant, a clothing boutique, and a delivery Ital-Tico pizza place. There is now also municipal water available to the homes along Carbon Road (our road). So, although we will probably keep our water connection to the mountain spring, we plan to hook up to the municipal water as well so there will always be a water source. Now that's what I call progress.