{"id":248,"date":"2009-10-21T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T17:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/?p=248"},"modified":"2009-10-26T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T18:41:01","slug":"the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/2009\/10\/21\/the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

The road to Las Moras has been labeled by my co-workers here in Mexico as the worst road that any of us have to travel.\u00a0 It is rarely maintained.\u00a0 When it is rainy, it can take up to 3 days to get out of Las Moras because of the mud (63 miles).\u00a0 It is extremely bumpy – half of the time the speed doesn’t even register on the speedometer because you are moving too slowly.<\/p>\n

So, I was mentally prepared for a very rough trip.\u00a0 However, as we left the pavement, I was pleasantly surprised with a smooth ride – considerably fewer bumps than I had imagined.\u00a0 My partners were pleasantly surprised, too!\u00a0 We discovered the reason for the nice road as we passed the first town – a grader was out working on the road.\u00a0 I was thanking the Lord for His timing. First of all, the road is rarely maintained, but our trip corresponded with the grader working on the road from the coast to the first town.\u00a0 The grader’s timing isn’t very logical, because we are not yet out of rainy season (we have Hurricane Rick coming through right now) so the roads will\u00a0 continue to get washed out until the rains stop.\u00a0 However, we were very impressed with the road and I am praising God for His timing giving us travel-able roads!<\/p>\n

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the good part of the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, we passed the first town where the grader was parked\u00a0 and VERY quickly realized that the grader had worked no farther than where it was sitting.\u00a0 So, the rest of the road was as I expected – very bumpy and muddy in places.\u00a0 We are very thankful to God, though.\u00a0 The muddy places were not too muddy to pass through.\u00a0 There were no stranded vehicles we were not able to get around.\u00a0 There were no mud\/rock slides that made the road impassable.\u00a0 And it started raining when we were only about 3 miles away from the village.\u00a0 That made the last little bit was even slower as the rain made the clay road very slippery, but we are thankful that it wasn’t raining sooner.<\/p>\n

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the bad part of the road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All in all, half the road was better than my partners had ever seen it and half the road was the worst they had ever seen it!<\/p>\n

Praise the Lord, we were able to make it in and out without any difficulties and the trucks ran great!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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