Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

So right about now, Clive and Gillian ought to be at the Bomba Shack for this month's full moon party (mushroom tea anyone?)… Reading their pages about living in the British Virgin Islands makes me really miss the Caribbean, and I've spend comparably zero time there… But it's really one of the nicest, prettiest places I've been. Our place on the Pacific Coast of the Baja is really nice as well but it's not as lush, and living in this part of Mexico the greenery is one thing you really get to miss.

Rachel (who my business manager as well as my wife) tells me that I can have all my dreams along those lines come true if I just work really hard for a few more years, so keep your fingers crossed for me.

If you want to help Clive and Gillian make it by the way, she's looking for more web design work — she recently built Total's Teflon jewelry company's website, Tuflon.com. Anyway, if you like the look of that page or her other work, it's definitely a contract where you know the money is going to improve a couple lives in really nice ways (not that supporting small business in general shouldn't always feel that way).

Other than that, I'll leak a couple more details about my still wholly-fictional resort. It's built around the same general concept as various overwater ocean-bungalow resorts like you see in the Maldives and Tahiti, but built using spherical semi-submerged monolithic concrete bungalows, with the sleeping quarters inside an underwater alcove with a giant picture window. The top story can be dived off of, and the units are connected by docks or causeway. I should post some pictures because my description isn't doing it justice…

On the mainland part of the resort are buildings of a similar construction for the restaurant and main facilities, and the whole thing is wind and solar powered, and most of the food can be produced on site — a small organic farm is contained on the grounds, and coupled with fresh fish this can provide nearly all the core food and drink. The concept is an eco-resort that's incredibly luxurious, with amazing food, self-sufficiency, and total resistance to hurricanes and other disasters.

I've just got to come up with $10 million in seed capital, or find someone wealthy that believes in the idea enough to help… But I think it could work…