I have received several hints that people want to know what it looks like here so I will try to explain what I can. We are at about 5,000 feet above sea level and it takes three hours to get up here in a vehicle. The road is very bumpy and washed out and there are "motos" honking and passing all the way up. Some places the road is too narrow for two vehicles to pass so the driver will just honk the horn and go. If it is too narrow someone will have to back up until the road is wide enough to pass. There are also a lot of "commu's" (like farm trucks with the high sides) that can be VERY loaded down with everything imaginable. The trucks are usually heaped up with bags of corn, cabbages, rice, potatoes, you name it. Then on top of that and riding on the top of the sides of the truck are the people with all their goods- baskets, bags, bowls, chickens, goats, pigs, children, etc... So the other vehicle is often the one who has to back up and not the commu. The front of the truck will be full of people also, often at least four people. Then there are also people walking on the road, donkeys, mules, horses, and their loads. Also people leading their goats to or from market. The road goes along the edge of the mountains at places with steep drop offs right beside the vehicle and other places it runs along through the riverbed. It is normally a dry riverbed but every time it rains the road in the riverbed gets washed away so a new path has to be chosen. There are several streams that need to be forded also. By the streams there are lots of people washing clothes, taking baths, or hauling buckets of water to their nearby gardens. The people then head back home whether it is up or down the mountain with their baskets of clean clothes or buckets of water on their heads.
   About 30 minutes from where we live is a place called "forest of pines" where there is market every Saturday. Someone from this house will usually go. Today just four of us went so we took the motos. It was just beautiful riding through the forest, although a person tends to be dusty and sometimes a bit shook up from the ride there. Market is just one crazy mass of milling humanity. Just imagine one massive flea market, some of the places have a tarp held up by wood poles for shade. There is a good place to eat there also. Of course there are people selling their few pieces of meat or cooked cowhide or whatever all it is but the place where we eat is in a block building with a roof. The door is a curtain and they wash the dishes right in front of the building. Big pots of food line one corner and another corner has an old freezer that is used for an ice chest to keep some drinks cold. There is usually chicken, rice, and some type of bean sauce served. Today the sauce was made with peas. Very good food! The tables might be ramshackle but they are covered with some type of afghan or tablecloth. There are probably five tables in all and you can sit anywhere.