TRANSPORTATION OBSERVATIONS

Several days last week, as Glenn and I were driving through the city, there were about ½ dozen occasions when I would notice that a worker would turn and face a pile of bricks and then “let it loose”. I’m going, “well, when you got to go, you got to go!”

You know those large steel trailer cages that transports automobiles, usually about 8 – 10 cars, some parked at a angle on top of each other? Well, picture this. Last week, we pasted one of those trucks and trailer that was completely empty. Yet, there were 4 guys that had strung up their 2 hammocks between the steel bars and were taking a nap in the hammock as the driver was swerving through traffic. What an ingenious and creative idea way to travel through the streets of downtown Guatemala?

As we were driving over to pick up Stephanie the other day, Glenn says “Hey, look over there!” It was a whole family of 4 on a motorcycle stopped at the light. Front row seat was a toddler, then the dad or driver, another child sandwiched between the mother. And then it got even funnier. The dad was poking the front child that was sitting near the handlebars, trying to keep the child awake. You know when you are asleep, you are like dead weight, but you can’t go to sleep while driving through these streets.