Costa Rica -- Traffic jam:
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- Description of Pictures: The trip back from the Arenal Volcano was supposed to be fairly uneventful but a heavy rain hit us. The driver gallantly made it through the blinding rain and fog until we were stopped along the two-lane road by a traffic accident which had just occurred. A loaded sugar cane truck, which was driving in the center of the street instead of its lane, had broken an axle and blocked the road. The smaller bus, being faster, had already gone through before us so they made it home on time. Our driver tried to get around the truck but the space was too small and one of our tires went off the road. Since Costa Rica doesn't have paved shoulders, we got out and pushed the bus out of the mud. It backed behind a milk truck, which was directly behind the sugar cane truck, and waited. Some vehicles were small enough or had enough wheels to make it passed us but basically we were stuck there for two hours. There wasn't much traffic on this road, despite it being a primary route, so there were only a dozen vehicles that ended up stuck on either side of the blockade. The truck behind us was filled with (mostly) live chickens -- I estimated there were 11 x 8 x 5 containers, each containing two, maybe three chickens. The bus group was all fairly jolly and we told jokes as the time went on -- the theme song to "Gilligan's Island" was a big hit. We got back to the villa around midnight.
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