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NOSARA, COSTA RICA — Standing on the edge of a remote mountaintop crest, overlooking a tree-soaked valley in a rolling panorama of dense green foliage, Morgan Hoffmann stares off toward an uncertain but inspired future, while quietly contemplating the climb it took to get here.
“What if this didn’t happen? I’d still be on the PGA Tour, complaining about making millions of dollars and not being in a nice courtesy car,” Hoffmann says with a laugh. “The path I’ve chosen has been different. It’s weird. It can be made fun of. But it takes courage.”
Here in the Costa Rican jungle, high atop the 275-acre plot of land he purchased and named Nekawa (the word “awaken” spelled backwards) Hoffmann details his plan to build a healing center for people battling disorders, diseases or illnesses that modern western medicine defines as incurable. That includes his disease: Muscular dystrophy.
“You don’t understand the phrase ‘health comes first’ until you experience something that has that weight,” Hoffmann says. “For me, seeing muscle disappear was that trigger.
“Doctors have told me countless times, ‘It’s incurable. Good luck. Go f— yourself.’ That’s not how you treat people.”
With Nekawa, Hoffmann wants to provide hope for the hopeless, light in the darkness. But for now, it’s still just a vision he wants to show me. Doing so requires an hourlong drive in Hoffmann’s black Land Rover SUV, up a washed-out mountain trail. He tells me the average shelf life for most vehicle suspensions around here is two or three years. That initially surprised me. But the further we bobbled up the mountain, the more it made sense. It’s enough to rattle the fillings out of your teeth.
Along this bumpy drive to Nekawa, dwellings are few. There’s a plywood tin roof house here and there. But not…
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