Originally Posted by Chris
"I'm sorry, I have yet to speak with a single tourist visitor this last year who approved of the roads when they were potholed and muddy and almost impassable. Reactions included embarrassment (for the island),shock, incredulity, anger (for their aching backs) but never anything positive. Is this how we are to treat our valued tourist visitors?

Those of you who own property here and complain of inevitable progress and have never owned a golf cart or other vehicle on this island might have a point and a place to complain. It won't do much good but it's easy to see your point of view and I sympathize with you.

For the others ... once you bought your vehicle and used the road you became a part of the problem which now has to be solved.


I guess it is all how it is presented to guests. For my guests, I tell them that there is a path and they can rent a golfcart, but that this is merely just a "path" and certain times of the year it is very good and other things, they should probably consider boat travel. I guess I would be mad if I was told if I booked a rental thinking that I could pick up my golfcart at the airport and drive the highway to my resort without passing go. Certain rentals are looking for rentals so hard that they are misrepresenting their properties and the convenience to town. I represent mine as the truth for the location and the quiet, flats fishing, birds, and lack of diesel smell. There are certain people who do have golf carts or motorcycles that go back and forth to town, but they don't seem to be the ones screaming the loudest. If you come here and buy a golf cart without really knowing the cost, repair work needed to maintain it, and the condition of the road that you want to drive it on, who is the fool. Bring on the progress, but what you deem progress, others might thing we have our priorities screwed up a bit. Now if you want to talk about universal complaints, it isn't the path and ruts, it is the beach trash. Perhaps if you wanted to really make progress in San Pedro and worked on this first, we would present a better picture to developers and buyers and then you may have others willing to jump on your bandwagon to get more development north. Lets just double the population up north and double the beach trash along with it and you will see more For Sale signs than Sold.