Luperon

February 19, 2014

Today has been a day of waiting.  Daniel saw Paco (the mooring area guy) first thing this morning.  We told him we wanted 40 gallons of diesel delivered and he said, no problem.  I will be back in an hour.  We waited and waited.  Apparently “an hour” in island time means something different than we think, so we wait.  Lunch time came and we really wanted to go into town for some local food so Daniel called Paco on the radio and asked him to just deliver this afternoon.  So we headed into town for lunch.  We went to a place called Robert’s Upstairs.  We had to walk up some stairs to get there.  We were the only customers in the place.  Daniel pulled out his Spanish and ordered us fried chicken with rice and beans, and a nice side salad.  It was delicious.  We were able to watch the lady (and her mother?) prepare the food about 20 feet from us.  It was like a kitchen with no walls in the corner of a restaurant.  As I sat there waiting on my pictures to download to the blog I was watching the locals walk/ride by.  I saw, and have never seen before in my life, a man, riding a motorcycle going at a pretty brisk speed, pulling a horse, which was pulling a donkey.  No lie.