Saturday, November 24, 2007

More of the Thanksgiving Trip

After our walk, our dinner, and our lesson in tin-smithing, we returned to the hotel and a beer on our little patio. The B&B not only had a parrot, but friendly cats as well. These are true tropical cats who will snuggle even in the heat.






In front of our neighbor's casita. The garden was the best we've been in so far here and the pool was small but inviting. I didn't bring my swim suit, thinking we'd not find a place with a pool.





The next morning I beat Kent out of bed and the B&B's breakfast time by a couple of hours, so I took an early morning photo jaunt in a neighborhood that wasn't painted yellow on the edge of town. It's not misty in the following photos. It's smoky. Everyone seemed to be buring something and it didn't dissipate in the still, heavy air.




There were two cheerful old men macheteing down that lovely plant, which they called San Diego. When I said, "Pobre San Diego," they laughed and said he'd grow back quickly.






This traditional Mayan house had a thatched roof under the galvanized (rusted) roof and the rope was thrown over all to hold it together.











After breakfast we took off for Tizimin and a long route home. This sign always makes me laugh. "Don't mistreat the signs." We need something like that in Wyoming, where they are often riddled with bullet holes.



Tizimin's church. Note that in the lower right corner of the picture is the bumper of our car. Kent is doing well as chauffer. The roads were good, in some cases excellent, and the traffic wasn't heavy. There were even signs telling us where we were and where we were headed. We only got lost once. We take the free roads and haven't been disappointed. The toll roads are expensive and cut into our beer money.




And inside the church.


This is a type of delivery trike that I'd never seen before. I call it a 4-wheeled tricycle. The rear, middle wheel is the drive wheel.

The church in Valladolid. It wasn't open.

And another important road sign. "Don't leave Rocks on the Pavement."


Truck drivers, whose trucks are stopped or broken down on the highway, make a detour with large rocks. When the vehicle is repaired, I guess they must leave them for the purpose of breaking other cars. Actually, we've not seen any rocks on the road, but we did in China when we traveled in remote regions.

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. We certainly did.