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Yesterday I discovered an epic riding area. I knew it existed but just hadn´t found it yet. The other day I was on my way to the border to pick up my mom and as I passed the wind farm I noticed the water levels of the lake dropped and a bit of beach emerged. The beach is part of an eco-community called La Joya. I spoke with the project manager Himat about wanting to kite from his beach and he was ok with it as long as we joined him for lunch. La Joya is just past the wind farm on the way to the Costa Rica border. The land has rivers on either side which created a nice sandy, shallow bottom. The wind comes clean across 3,089 sq mi of water and is south of the volcano so the wind is less turbulent. Yesterday was a great wind day and for most of it I rode my 7m in like 25knots. At one point the wind died down but I had my 12m ready to go and that worked fine. La Joya is a bump and jump area but the size of the waves make for good air time.

I'm either going to find an ancient chant to bring wind or climb the volcano and sacrifice something. I think this El Nino year is really messing up my riding and ability to work.

I’m starting to develop a routine here in San Juan now. It’s taken quite a long time to do because I have been moving around a lot in the past two ½ months but now I found a house to rent by the month. It’s nothing fancy, something equivalent to a favela but it’s only $120 a month and a close walk to town. It’s nice being able to finally unpack my bags. I’ve been basically on the go since September 2007 and to be honest with you I would like to chill out for awhile.