Road work

The road to Quinta las Pinas is very steep, cobbled and almost impossible to climb with a vehicle when it is raining. During the rainfalls of January and February many of the stones became dislodged, making the road even more dangerous to travel. Two of the young men who have been working on the wall construction were given the task of road repairs. The youngest one had to handmix cement on the main roadway below, fill buckets with the mud, hoist the buckets onto his shoulder, climb up 40 feet of scaffolding and over a stone wall to pour the buckets into the potholes(many times). The luckier guy had the job of positioning stones into the cement. It took them half a day to repair several large holes.

We had a light sprinkle of rain later in the day and heard spinning tires on the road again. The driver was impatient and kept hitting the gas pedal too hard. We were worried that he would undo all of the valuable new road work before it had a chance to set properly. Finally, cursing and yelling at the Gods, he gave up and backed down the hill. With a gentle touch, he could have made it. Instead, he trudged up the hill on foot, still steaming mad!!