It's sort of like, some of my favorite thinegs but without Julie Andrews, singing....OK it's not really like that, it's just stuff we've seen in developing countries that would drive OSHA, building inspectors, L&I people, pretty much anyone from a developed country would start shaking their head and mumbling....doing Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man.
Transportation is great!!...So 5 people on a scooter ( yes I said scooter!!!) at least 10 people on a tricycle, a palm tree on a pedicab or about 15 people in and around a small pickup truck and my favorite was outside of the big market at Masaya in Nicaragua at about 4 in the morning, a donkey is pulling a cart loaded about 12 ft high with plastic laundry baskets, plastic chairs and tables , going like 2 miles an hour done the highway. I assume they were taking all this stuff to the market that morning to sell....hanging off the back of the cart was the hazard light to warn on coming cars of a slow moving vehicle, or actually a small boy that looked around 5 years old waving a flashlight at on coming cars, the best, I laughed my ass off. Another good one is babies, yes small toddlers, on the handlebars of bicycles or various pets or food products ( still alive ) on bicycles or scooters, always a good picture.
I almost always get asked if I want to buy some sort of drugs by various random people... drugs are a pretty big no no in the phillipines...but still, I did get asked by various random people on the street if I wanted to buy some Viagra. Not sure what that meant but going to go with, alive and male.
Showers and electricity, or pretty much wiring anywhere in third world countries, always exciting. Just yell "Clear " before you plug in anything and remember to not touch the suicide shower while the water is running... again exciting and usually it breaks the heater which means no more hot showers, not exciting.
Ok one last thing, diving related of course. We all agree ...nobody gets tired of seeing Nemo ( or I guess more accurately, clownfish or anemonefish ) so like I've said in previous posts , Nemos are territorial and pretty aggressive, so getting rushed by a 2 inch fish is pretty amusing, I also learned this trip that they see each other in your mask. So they also think another Nemo is coming to take their anenome from them, along with the 6 ft bumbling flesh bag that is getting close to them.
I also never get tired of travelling, of meeting these wonderful people in their beautiful countries and my favorite of all...meeting their children, they are innocent and old all at once. Sad and wonderful....
Love and warm thoughts from Sasebo, Japan
Carrie, erica and glen
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