Here we are about as high as the road goes, in the vegetable farm area. It is too hot to raise vegetables in the lower elevations, so up here you get tomatoes, lettuce, cauliflower and others. Here it is cool enough from the altitude for them to grow well. They compete with the coffee plantations that are expanding as the world demand for a 'quick-fix' grows. We even met one English lady who was here to check up on her 'coffee farm'. The real-estate businesses are selling your 'retirement farm' to go with your 'retirement villa' in your 'retirement gated-community'. I hope it all works out for the 'retirees'.

I'm always worried about what might happen when the country fills up with 'rich retired Americans' and the locals can no longer afford food or housing; what with Hugo Chavez's socialist movement just down the South American Continent a bit doing all of that nationalization of property....etc....