Saturday, July 26, 2008

Veinticinco Personas en un Carro

The volunteers here drive a rugged manual-transmission Toyota Tacoma (see: river crossing video). It has four doors, can fit 5 comfortably in the cab (6 if someone wants to straddle the gear box), and is made complete by a regular-sized truck bed. Still, The other day, these physical limitations did nothing to prevent us from fitting a total of 25 people (3 of them babies) into/around/on Linda (el nombre de carro (our car is kind of like the village bicycle...)). More shocking still was when we were told that this wasn’t the record (apparently Linda really liked to get around back in the day, one time taking on 28 passengers in a single going. We’ll see if we can’t bring back those glory days during our time.

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