Parking in your garage can be tough

Part of an alfombra (rug) made

with plant material

Linda

I watched a woman trying to get her car parked in her garage and it was a bit of a struggle. As you can see the front of the house lines the street and there is very little room to swing around to aim your car at the garage. Her home is in back of the garage and the door on the left is probably her neighbors garage. This poor woman rocked back and forth and in and out until she was finally lined up. It looks like there is just barely room for the car to fit inside. At least this garage is not open to the living area of the house. As we walk we sometimes see motorcycles parked next to the table inside a house. They use a ramp to get the things inside. From the street all you can see is the wall and the huge doors and you cannot even guess what is behind that - business or home. The electricity meter is way up high at the top of the door. Makes you wonder how it gets read. Sometimes you can see 5 or 6 meters which means there are apartments behind those big doors.

Need a Taxi? You can find taxi's lined up next to the cathedral on one side of central park. These are cars and some look okay while others have been rattling up and down these streets for a very long time. They wash these cars with buckets right where they stand.

The chicken buses are also washed right where they stand. It just takes a bigger bucket and more of them. For the most part the chicken buses are clean at least in the dry season. This guy popped the hood for ease of washing. We are seeing more buses that have not been repainted. We wonder if that is due to money being a little tighter these days.

A lot of people get around on motorcycles and scooters and motorbikes. There are sections of street for them to park. Sometimes you will see one that has been in use for a long time and the seat will no longer have a cover on it or it will be taped up or left alone for a different look. At night these things are extremely noisy (our bedroom is two feet from a very busy street).