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Archive for November, 2007

On my birthday, we got up about 5, and caught the 6:30 flight from Manaus to Port Vehlo. Richard, an American expat, picked us up in the supplier’s pick-up truck. The pick-up was filled with furniture to be delivered to the supplier’s wife and there was barely room for our bags. We climbed in, with me in the middle, the gear shift between my legs and headed off. No aircon of course. About two cramped and hot hours down the road, there’s a gentle bump and a repetitive thumping noise. Richard pulls off and we see the front tire sunk flat. Okay, so we find a spare buried beneath the furniture…but no jack. Okay, flag a man down (not as easy as it sounds–we’re on a major highway and folks just don’t stop unless, like this fellow, they feel its their Christian duty), borrow his jack, get the car up and the flat off, put on the spare…but the spare doesn’t fit. Read the rest of this entry »