Souvenir Photo Studio, by Al Bourassa: Friday Feb 15, 2019 Road Trip

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Friday Feb 15, 2019

Because David was enquiring about a place to send a Fax, I checked out the place 3 blocks away that advertises such service. Of course, they don't do international faxes any more. It seems that almost all advertising is very dated here and they never bother to update things. A coffee kiosk at LA 14 advertises a lovely hot sauce for sale but they haven't sold it for 2 years..

We stayed in bed much longer this morning since it has been 3 months since Cristina's operation and decided to go on another photo road trip, to the south this time.

Do you know the way to San Jose is the question.. YouTube: https://youtu.be/-2UpwpTAd8U. Obviously we don't. The sign said to turn right onto this gravel road with sugar cane fields for miles in every direction but we went quite a ways and never saw any sign of an upcoming town so we turned back.

Our next try was left to San Pedro which seemed like a lovely town, open doors (safe?) and upgraded roads. We went up the mountainside to get a shot. Then we took the main drag back south again and it eventually dumped us back on the highway and heading for the toll booth where we turned back.

We saw a sign for Todos Los Santos and we turned there but realized that was putting us back on the road we just came from. Somehow it switched towns on our passage with no signs, nothing.

Since we really hadn't done much yet we decided to try seeing some places we always wondered about. We found a new cemetery on the side of the highway outside Tulua. We saw one sign for the Jardin Biologico 6 kms, but knew there was another sign further along that said 5 kms... We turned right there and immediately faced a t-intersection. Well, logic said that we had only cut off a kilometer of the trip so we took the obvious left and followed through a skinny but good road through a Tulua neighbourhood. When we saw the Police Academy we knew that we had returned to just behind LA14 so we took the road back out to the highway. Undaunted, we went back to that Jardin Biologico intersection and turned right, asking some people immediately if this is the right road. Oh yes, just follow the pavement (5 kms) which ended after about 1 km. We kept asking people and they said yes, this awful road goes there. We saw a sign to turn left to get there and still 2.5 kms to go and we decided it wasn't worth the wear and tear on the car.

Part way back on this bad road we spot a very tall man with a huge backpack walking up the road, so we stopped, because he was obviously a Gringo. He had a Capetown t-shirt so I thought that he might have been South African, but it turned out that he was from Wales. He, and a group of friends had left from somewhere down south, hanggliding 90 kms to reach Roldanillo (where Cristina is from, and a world-class paragliding site). However he lost his thermal and almost ended up in a river but luckily avoided that, but was still way off from the highway. He said that he had already been walking an hour in this heat. So he was very grateful for the lift and we brought him to the gas station (with food services) just ourtside of Andalucia where his chase group could pick him up. His Spanish was pretty good because he had lived 3 years in Spain. Our good deed for the day.

Then we did our bi-weekly stop to say Hi to Christian and to water the flowers. That new grave beside him has been filled in but obviously unoccupied because there is nothing, no cross, flowers, nothing in evidence. Very strange.

So my rant today is how much Murphy's Law affects my life in almost every aspect. If anything can move, slip, slide, fall, escape, or just generally evade my grasp, or click..... you know the rest.

I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.

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