Day 16 / El Coro

Does anybody know what time it is?  Unless we look at the computer or IPhone, we have no idea what time it is as we're not wearing watches down here!  But I can tell about what time it is by looking outside at the beach and the sun - I can tell in the morning about what time it is when I look out through the slider from the bed - I can tell from the location of the sun on the patio too if it's time to go in and eat lunch!

It's nice not to have a schedule - to know that the entire day ahead of you is yours to do what you want!  This is true retirement - being able to CHOOSE what you want to do!

Today was the day to deliver the rice and beans to El Coro - our neighbors Del and Linda offered to drive their much larger and 4wd drive vehicle (vs. our tiny compact rental car that has bald tires!!) so we were grateful for that!  Linda's friend has been to El Coro several times so basically gave us directions where to go once we got there.

The road wasn't too bad - it was about 10 kilometers to the tiny village and you have to pass by the dump to get there - gosh, what an eyesore that dump was.  Plastic bags hanging on the viney thorny bushes long before we got to the dump and then quite surprised to see cows eating there!!  Our rancher friends sure wouldn't approve of that!!

We climbed higher and higher and I was sure glad we had the 4WD vehicle!  We actually passed through the tiny village (not realizing that was it) and drove a ways further - we did see a couple of homes so stopped and handed out the items.  Glenn and I did most of the handing out but there were a couple of places that the dogs were barking pretty good and I stayed in the car and shot a couple of pictures during those!

Here we are climbing up the mountain in the car and that's the ocean in the distance.

 The first house we stopped at was a very elderly lady who was very hunched over.

 The homes were very poor looking - shacks actually - some have no windows just open areas where the windows went!  But all were happy getting the rice and beans - 2 places had small children and they smiled when I talked to them and waved good-bye.  They were so appreciative and all thanked us!  What a great feeling it was to hand out that food!

 I didn't take any pictures of the women and children - I wanted to but felt it was an invasion of their privacy!
  Another view of going down the mountain.

 Glenn insisted that he had to have a picture of the cows eating the trash from the dump!

After we arrived back home, the wind came up super strong!!  I have never seen such high waves in front of our place!!  So windy we couldn't even sit outside so it was another TV evening!  Still paradise though!