Heavy loads (Drive Day 132: November 8th, 2003)
My first images of South America as a child and now, fix it as a place of brute strength and hard work. The first photo is of my father’s overweight camper being off-loaded in Colombia. What it doesn’t show is the longshoreman whose finger was ripped from his hand securing the straps and cables. My mother held her hands over my ears and told me to think about Pantera instead: our little half-blind rescue cat was cowering in the camper’s hidden storage compartment.
The second photo is one Gary snaps of a woman crossing a street in Quito, where we’ve rented a room in a youth hostel while we wait for the camper to catch up with us.
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