The biggest impact of the day was receiving an e-mail from our lawyer that the buyers wanted to back out of the sale. No reasons given. We were the first to learn it. Our realtor tried to ask the buyers' realtor what was wrong, but she refused to answer. We are so worried, after having spent so much money and time, that there is another major problem with the house that we don't know about. We don't have more money for fixing the house!
We told the realtor to put the house back on the market--it's still March, and April is the critical time to be on the market. So we haven't been set back too much, if only the house is in good shape. In the meantime, we are still in Ecuador staying in people's homes, being fed well and cared for. There is still time to sell the house this spring. We're disappointed in some ways, because we still have the responsibility of caring for and paying for the house in the U.S., and all the possibility that selling the house would have represented closed. Still, it's not the end of our world. We just would like to know why they backed out!
Poor Elizabeth still has no voice, so we will have to interview her when we return. Tomorrow we head to the coast near a town called Manta. We're going to the home of a tagua carver in Bajo de la Palma (under the palm tree). Doesn't that sound romantic? I'm very familiar with the Pacific Coast of North America, but only one trip to the coast of Lima, Peru, where I learned the water is COLD! Really, really cold, due to the Humboldt Current. You also get bruised from the rocks that the heavy surf hurls at you. So I'm wondering what it's like in Ecuador.
Elizabeth is so hospitable and organized! We are very impressed with her abilities--she has a tremendous energy and a quick intelligence to sort out everything we need. We're very grateful for her and for Javier being here to host us. Tonight as we were asking about our bus trip tomorrow, we tried very hard to understand the plan, but with her laryngitis, we just couldn't make it out. So she called Romel, who translated for us what was supposed to happen in the morning. She is what they call here "lista," very smart.
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