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Driving Up On The
Sidewalk, Sadly, Is More The Norm in Costa
Rica Than I’d Like To Admit
Driving Up On The
Sidewalk, Sadly, Is More The Norm in Costa
Rica Than I’d Like To Admit
From
the blogs. GlobalPost.com
Blogger: Mother Jungle
As the last weeks of the highway
reconstruction plows on, tempers and
patience wear thin. Today, I drove to a
doctor’s appointment for Addison to gather
yet another file and record and found myself
turning around in a detour that popped up
out of nowhere.
This is the norm in Costa Rica. When an exit
or road is closed, you’re basically on your
own. And I’ve lived here awhile, so I no
where to go - most of the times. I remember
the first trip I ever took to Costa Rica it
took seven hours to get to the hotel in a
drive that should have taken thirty minutes.
Some of that was due to my inept Spanish,
but 3/4 of that was to blame on the ripping
up a many, many streets in downtown San
Jose. Not a sign could be seen to lead us
anywhere. The other thing about blocking a
road is that there are rarely any good
alternatives. And those alternatives become
jam packed in times of presas - traffic
jams.
If there was a sign, I could have looped
right up to the exit and gotten on the
autopista in minutes. Instead, I had to turn
around at a dead end - like hundreds of
other drivers - and “re-find” the proper
exit. As one can see from the smashed road
barricade, this was not a proper exit. It
gets hot for all of us; it gets annoying for
all of us; it can even fill some of us with
rage. But drive up on a sidewalk on a
freshly asphalted road that is there to
serve an entire metropolitan population for
years to come? Who’s that important?
Luckily, I didn’t have Addison* with me or
we surely would have run out of oxygen,
literally. I pushed on to find my way back
and eventually my way home. I resisted the
urge to follow the crowd and sought the safe
way home.
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