Ah,
tereré! How refreshing when one is boiling hot to drink cold water (or juice, or water with flavored herbs) over
mate. I had this picture taken because I remembered
being here in May drinking mate (in the same outfit!). After lunch and the vision seminar we came back to Emilia and Ricardo's to await a ride back to town: no one ventures out at siesta time so we had a few hours to kill.
Here we are hitching. Ricardo and Emilia know how to do this, so I just hung back.
I wish I had a picture of this truck that offered us a ride -- it was huge! Thankfully there was a ladder on the side for us to climb up on. Emilia tried to sit at first, with her egg basket. However, the swirling red dirt made that impossible and we took up the typical position you'll have seen in everyone's third-world photos: standing facing forward holding on to the cab.
You can't tell it here, but we were getting covered in red dirt. Covered.
Stunning views of the countryside from high up on the truck! Can you spot Ricardo on his motorbike?
Ah, tereré
Here we are hitching. Ricardo and Emilia know how to do this, so I just hung back.
I wish I had a picture of this truck that offered us a ride -- it was huge! Thankfully there was a ladder on the side for us to climb up on. Emilia tried to sit at first, with her egg basket. However, the swirling red dirt made that impossible and we took up the typical position you'll have seen in everyone's third-world photos: standing facing forward holding on to the cab.
You can't tell it here, but we were getting covered in red dirt. Covered.
Stunning views of the countryside from high up on the truck! Can you spot Ricardo on his motorbike?
