Marooned

August 28, 2007, 6AM

Road Works Collapsed last night. Situation worse than before. Construction workers wading through thigh-high mud to catch bus home.

Road workers should not have cut that massive higueron (Ficus sp. w/huge roots supported entire hillside).

Landslides. Jimmy sank up to his neck in muck – bystanders pulled him out.

Rodeo villagers moving in with friends/family in Ciudad Colon so folks can get to work and kids go to school.
UPAZ students now bused to university in San Jose.

Huge Ceiba branch down and road blocked to Piedras Negras.

News at El Tigre:
Construction workers coming through by foot from Ciudad Colon. Los Aventureros.

Gerald is not a happy camper.

Monkeys making peace with dogs- that is – monkeys playing with dogs, shaking tree branches at them, pruning laurel trees nicely at the top – dogs tire of barking at monkeys and dodging sticks and hurled fruits and return back to me. We sit quietly watching the monkeys.
More lessons for us all.