A couple of other observations about Colombia:
Nowhere else in the world have I noticed people tacking so much trouble to keep their trucks clean. I'm talking about the big road rigs here (but I suspect it applies equally to individual cars too). Throughout the whole length of the country, the highways are continually lined with roadside truck washing areas. The water is usually gathered from mountain side creeks and brought down to the road side using 20-50m of poly pipe. It is then a free supply of water with good pressure. These areas are outside of virtually every single dwelling located alongside any highway.
The people here seem to really care about their truck´s appearance and usually about one in three of the sites is occupied by a truck being cleaned. The exception to this is on Sunday when almost every site is occupied and people are out with long handled brooms scrubbing their favourite Juggernaut :)
On a related note, there seems to be an acute shortage of shower heads here in Colombia (in Mexico it was fuel caps for trucks). Most of the hotels that I have stayed in , even the good ones, seem to be missing the shower heads in the bathrooms. It just seems a little strange that people would steal these minor items...They cant be that expensive to buy. Its no real problem since the flow of water is just as effective for getting clean with (if a little less enjoyable) but I don't understand why the phenomenon exists.... Just another of life's little puzzles.
Nowhere else in the world have I noticed people tacking so much trouble to keep their trucks clean. I'm talking about the big road rigs here (but I suspect it applies equally to individual cars too). Throughout the whole length of the country, the highways are continually lined with roadside truck washing areas. The water is usually gathered from mountain side creeks and brought down to the road side using 20-50m of poly pipe. It is then a free supply of water with good pressure. These areas are outside of virtually every single dwelling located alongside any highway.
The people here seem to really care about their truck´s appearance and usually about one in three of the sites is occupied by a truck being cleaned. The exception to this is on Sunday when almost every site is occupied and people are out with long handled brooms scrubbing their favourite Juggernaut :)
On a related note, there seems to be an acute shortage of shower heads here in Colombia (in Mexico it was fuel caps for trucks). Most of the hotels that I have stayed in , even the good ones, seem to be missing the shower heads in the bathrooms. It just seems a little strange that people would steal these minor items...They cant be that expensive to buy. Its no real problem since the flow of water is just as effective for getting clean with (if a little less enjoyable) but I don't understand why the phenomenon exists.... Just another of life's little puzzles.
