{"id":388,"date":"2010-01-04T22:56:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T03:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/?p=388"},"modified":"2010-01-04T23:02:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T04:02:26","slug":"2nd-times-a-charm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/2010\/01\/04\/2nd-times-a-charm\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Time’s a Charm"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have the distinction of having the worst road of all the places where our organization works in Mexico.\u00a0 We travel 63 miles and it takes between 6-8 hours.<\/p>\n

This last trip we weren’t able to get in on the first try.\u00a0 Two and a half hours into the trip, we descend into a valley, cross the river and then climb up the other side of the mountain. \u00a0 Well, as we began to descend, it began to rain quite steadily.<\/p>\n

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\"Uh-oh...<\/a>
Uh-oh... steady rain + dirt road = MUD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We noticed that the river was a little higher than normal, but nothing we couldn’t cross.\u00a0 But, then as we started up the other side we had problems. We were loaded down with materials for building and all of our camping stuff for 2 weeks.\u00a0 The rain had made the road extremely muddy and we weren’t able to make it up the hill.<\/p>\n

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\"This<\/a>
This is the hill we couldn't get up. This picture does not accurately convey the mud or the slope. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After several tries we backed down the hill and got out to fill the road with rocks and small branches for traction.<\/p>\n

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\"Trying<\/a>
Trying to create traction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After an hour of playing in the mud, our efforts had no effect.\u00a0 We still couldn’t make it up the hill.\u00a0 So, we turned back to the coast to wait for the roads to “dry out” a bit.<\/p>\n

We waited two days and tried again.\u00a0 We battled again at the same hill, but this time we were able to make it all the way up and eventually to the village.<\/p>\n

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\"Another<\/a>
Another picture of the mud!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have the distinction of having the worst road of all the places where our organization works in Mexico.\u00a0 We travel 63 miles and it takes between 6-8 hours. This last trip we weren’t able to get in on the first try.\u00a0 Two and a half hours into the trip, we descend into a valley, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[423,534],"tags":[6669,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news-article","7":"category-pics","8":"tag-road","9":"tag-travel","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rachel-chapman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}