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| License plates are interesting here. Notice the variations -this one is letters-space-numbers, and is a 5-sided plate (not rectangular) | two-high row, rectangular plate | two-high row, rounded corners | No space between letters and numbers. | Single row, rectangle. Here you are issued a plate number, and are on your own to make your own plate. Doing that yourself in the US is ilegal, here it's required to make your own. | ||
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| Sidewalk? Ain't no sidewalk here :-( | Still, could be worse, there is at least space to walk, and a crosswalk up ahead. | children's school or daycare? | Lamp post (on the hiking trail!) leaning drunkenly to the side. Most of them are broken off. | |||
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| Here the top of the lamp-post is broken off, lying on the ground. | Amazing that they put in lamp posts on this hiking trail and ran electricity up to all of them! | Not as foggy today, better breeze. Doesn't feel as humid. We can see the mainland better today. | ||||
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| Today we brought up grape tomatoes to enjoy at the top! | This gazebo is fairly new! | A different pretty butterfly today, but she was too shy to land on Bob and stay there long enough for a photo. | ||||
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| Close-up of butterfly | Dripping with sweat in this humidity | Bob noticed a guy scraping bark off a tree. | Other trees have this removal of bark too. The sap is funneled down into a can. | |||
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| This can is nearly half full. | Now that we noticed this, we are seeing many other trees being milked for their sap. | And another. | This one has many scar marks. | We talked to some locals and found out these are rubber trees being milked. | ||
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| Back on the roads. Electrical poles have wires just hanging out. | And this is near ground level, not out of the reach of kids. Wish the US weren't so litigious like this place must not be! | Hmmm why wouldn't they want a truck to be backed up on the edge of the road here? | It's a serious drop-off 100 feet vertical down, with a ton of trash already dumped down :-( | |||
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| Back at the hotel, "Weeding of" [sic] | Gorgeous Lotus! | Nice matching license plate too :-) | |||