The People

Trip Start Jun 12, 2005
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Monday, September 11, 2006

In the states hard workers are commercial fisherman, carpenters, slave laborers... here, hard workers are old men with machetes and Parkinsons disease. We were riding and the man who monkey's around on the ranchero(a covered flat bed truck with wood benches to sit on) to get paid reached out his hand for the old mans's pasaje... The old man took out his trembling hand with a smile and shook the monkey's hand with a slight smile. The monkey shook his head no. The man who is undoubtedly subsisting on the jungle food he chopped down with that machete in his dirt-stained white nylon bag at his feet reached in and paid the man ten cents.

I will never forget this after I finished my uncomfortable comments in my notepad on the bumpy ranchero just minutes before he got on beside me; I scrapped those five pages as I realized I don't know uncomfort. I still don't know anything.

I have included pictures of this man and of other people who know much more than myself in this photo log.
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