Translation of librero

The casa cost me around twenty dollars and the woman wanted extra five dollars for food and cooking. Money was an issue in this country because no one had any. It is a very poor nation with great people.
Moreover, these conception goes with generations, it is almost biologically inherited, they are path from parent to child. As a result the a child has similar believes as his father or mother.
My wife joined me two hours later and everybody went to breakfast. The plan for the day was to visit a cave on one of the islands. We took smaller boats to get there as the ship was too large to approach the island.