What a day!

Our day started very early. We were awakened around 5am by the sound of a loud engine running on the road below. I staggered out of bed and down the stairs to peer over the railing at the road. A large refrigerated semi-trailer had run aground on the curve and tipped into the shallow ditch below us. He couldn't move and had to keep the engine running with the hope of salvaging his load. As a result the highway was only one way traffic for the next 10 hours, from 5am - 3pm. Another semi trailer truck finally arrived and they moved the cargo from one truck to the other. Now there were two large obstacles for traffic to move around. Meanwhile two idiots, in uniform, with whistles were directing traffic at both ends!

I had walked along the beach to Lindo Mar with a couple of friends. We had breakfast and took a taxi back to the house. The taxi driver turned up our road and almost ran into two guys pulling on a rope that was attached to tree limbs high overhead. Apparently approval was given to remove the tree and work had started. It appeared that they were removing the tree one foot at a time. To further complicate the situation for the taxi driver, a dump truck had dropped a load of large rocks onto the road for the wall construction. Workers were hurriedly trying to move the rocks out of our way! Tonio was off to one side of the road, busily trying to repair a broken water pipe that leads to the condominium development above us. The dump truck had backed up over the pipe and smashed it!

For several hours we were serenaded by a steady chorus of whistle blowing, horn honking, chain sawing and rock splitting. The truck was finally towed away, traffic returned to normal and the chainsaw quit for the day. Ah! Mexico!