The road needs a few loads to fix where he screwed it up 5 months ago.
I told him I wouldn't be home to supervise the placement of the material. This is absolutely necessary. The truck driver will put the stuff where ever he wants, with no thought where it ought to go.
I am paying $20 a load so I want it placed effectively.
The last load went up our road, past our house to the farm above us, never to be seen again. Who knows where it is. It is not on the road or anywhere we can find. It has disappeared into road rock heaven.
Very frustrating.
So I thought Rafael would postpone the load until I could be here...BUT NO!!!!!!
The load comes today while I am gone and is once again placed above our house where it does us no good.
For the second time.
I call Rafael and tell him. He is equally frustrated and can't even believe it happened again.
So it goes in Panama. Even the Panamanians can't believe the shit that happens here.
We did go on an awesome hike though.
It the higher reaches of the Boquete area, Bajo Mono (low monkey), there is a magnificent hike that starts at a suspension bridge over a literally roaring river.
It is great fun to stand on the bridge while someone else walks or runs across it, throwing you about with the swaying.
This is a wild trail. First growth jungle. So much growth and life that you think a handful of sand thrown in the air will come down with vegetation growing on it.
The trail is in the cloud forest...always wet, muddy and beautiful...and green, green, green!
It makes you think of dinosaurs roaming the jungle in days past. With prehistoric beasts chasing and eating each other in some wild, food-chain dance.
Daniel and Lily loved it.
Well, one out of two is pretty good. A great hike and another load of road gravel lost in The Land of You-Don't-Get-What-You-Want!
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