Costa Rica It would be so, I was discovered by the editorial office of the MAX around 2004. Impressed by my sports photos they sent me first to St. Peter-Ording's kite-World Cup, but that's another story. There is only time to go to Costa Rica. Then, namely me, had sent the MAX shortly after the Kite World Cup, to photograph an Internet billionaire. The sound was sometimes not so bad.
I already saw monthly and fly around the world and held as a precaution at airports ever after the inputs to the Lufthansa lounges look out ...
But as the MAX went during the third trip broke to East Germany, so I in this framework, only the Costa Rican history to tell white.
So, together with Stefan crutches, his character gifted Reporter who now also brings sensational stories in book form
captain went out there for five days in Costa Rica. The job: a self-made Internet billionaire, then number 27 of the Forbes money list to visit on his property in Costa Rica and portray his life. Calvin Ayres said the man, and then operating an online casino called "Bodog" which in the U.S. was fairly well known. Anyway, he has thus become very rich.
painted during the outward flight I made the fabulous world of the rich and famous. We expected at least 20 armed bodyguards with machine guns, the driveway to the majestic estate on a hearing the Central American Mountains guarding. Finally, in the run-up was only of "property" is mentioned. And by "Hugh Hefner of the Internet".
However, we have the flight booking, which had probably taken over the online casino should have attracted attention. Stefan and I are both grown quite large. The machines from Continental Airlines at any rate, that asked us to Newark, where we had to spend a nine-hour stay, should bring to Costa Rica, few space for our legs. This saw the stewardesses look like Nancy Reagan. The non-existing entertainment system, I would not mention further.
broken on the wheel, we finally landed in Costa Rica. The tension, however, who we would pick up as well, we had saved us. STRETCH-up of Heli in my head everything was possible.
fact was then an elderly man in his mid 50, with selbstgemaltem sign at the exit and told us - after all - in an Escalade. During the trip told us the Canadian ex-military some peppers from his time with Blackwater in Iraq. About his work as head of security at Calvin Ayres, he might well give no information.
He brought us the first time to the hotel so we could relax a little. The next night he wanted us to get to know each dinner to pick up again. Several times, he stressed that Costa Rica, the most dangerous Place in the world and that we should leave him in any case without the hotel. Unfortunately, the man had no time during the day for us, so we could sit and enjoy our mid-market hotel rooms.
the evening, the big moment had finally come. We got to know the star. The guy was standing with his Escalade front of the hotel, this time in a black suit and obvious gun in the holster. "Well, it goes," I thought me and jumped into the car.
be continued.