I am back home, I did have a good time on my trip even though I did get a spine ache from going in a car, thankfully it wasn't a bus. But I managed Ok in either case. It was worthwhile.
The town is in a developing phase and is now closing in on 70,000 inhabitants, it is the hub of an agricultural valley which produces bananas, palm oil, rice, corn, beans and also a lot of milk, it has some ranchers with some nice amounts of cattle.
I walked over a good part of it yesterday, 18,000 steps worth and it felt good even though it was pretty hot. There is now a lot of traffic when I was in school there a long time ago, at the most there were a hundred cars, people moved on foot or the better off ones on bicycles.
It gets foggy in the early morning, I don't go out at night any more so I didn't get to see the fog, but before when I used to go out drinking I always walked in heavy fog, kind of dangerous actually, any person could follow you and you couldn't see them. Yes, they couldn't see you either but bandits usually find victims somehow, not that it ever happened to me.
But I do like going to this town and in fact I like going to the many villages that are close by, they have improved significantly, mainly because the men have emigrated to the US, they always find jobs in agriculture because they are used to that hard work. So they send money home, and the houses are so much better now than a few decades ago.
I enjoy seeing how much this town has progressed, back when I was in school not a single street was paved and electricity was provided by the municipal power plant for maybe 16 hours a ay. when it broke down we sometimes went weeks without electricity.
You know, back then nobody even had fans, and now many people there can't sleep if they have their a/c bad. Progress apparently also makes people lazy and more demanding. Well that is life.
