Hazard lights & blinkers matter much more than brake lights & way more than reverse lights. I guess you can tell if someone's backing up. The highway here (hw200) goes north/south from somewhere above Acapulco and somewhere past Ometepec. That's where I've traveled it. Anyway it's a 2 lane road, with no shoulder to speak of, and not too many pull outs- and nobody uses the ones there are. But they do have topes (toe-pays) in random spots, always in little towns that are along the highway, and sometimes just in the middle of nowhere. Anyway although everything is Mexico is slow, and you wait for everything- this does NOT include driving. Everybody drives like a bat out of hell. On a 2 lane highway this can be a problem. Pass, pass, pass- that is the answer. On hills, on blind corners, when you can see someone coming- but what the hell you can make it! When you only pass one car & one is coming so you just move back into line ahead of one car- who must slow down so you can get in.So when you are in a big line of cars, they have their hazard lights on so you slow down. When a car coming toward you has hazard lights on its a message to you- there may be an accident ahead, bad traffic, cops...When you are behind someone & their left blinker goes on, they are signalling you that its ok to pass them. Hazard lights mean don't pass.

Going to Acapulco or Ometepec always has my stomach in knots because of all this jockeying for position. Ans lots of times you do all this passing and get stuck behind a big rig and everybody you passed catches up. I am not worried about my husband's driving (most of the time), but it's everybody else! If the car passing us gets into a head on collision there's a good chance we will be involved. The drive to Ometepec is very pretty when I'm not stressing about the traffic. There is so much unused land in Mexico. Beautiful rolling hills, tree lined raod with huge branches making shady patches. As you go up thru the mountains you can see rolling hills, all different shades of green, sometimes a town sitting along the side of a mountain. This drive is about an hour, maybe a little more and we pass lots of signs for towns; we plan to explore all of them as time goes by. I bet we'll find little treasures, tiny hotels or restaurants, places to walk or shop, I don't know but I'll find out.

Today was small aninmal day on the road. No cows or horses or donkeys in the road, but a small kitten ran out and I covered my eyes, but I didn't feel a bump so my story is that is one lucky kitty- now only 8 lives left...a lizard ran accross earlier and made it, but sadly we came accross a pretty big iguana thatecio we bought ice and yippee we have ice cream!! I've been wanting to buy an ice chest to keep in the caboy taking a pig twice his size for a walk, the pig seemed fine with it, not kicking and screaming like the last one.

 Well everything here takes a long time. I understand (maybe finally) that each thing you do takes all day. Our plan was shoot to Ometepec and shop at Cheduare (called Super Che), for meat and cereal, veges, a new chain lock for the gate,  asmall ice chest, etc. They have pretty good meat which is why we went. Then stop by the paint store for a quart of purple and red (1 each) to finish the job in the house. Then come home, paint, go swimming, nap, etc. Ha ha!! Super Che was ok, but the paint store couldn't match the paint. So we headed back, planning to stop in Marquelia for milk and the ATM. As we hit Marquelia we saw a smaller paint store and decided to check it out. Well they could mix it by hand. I waited in the car...it took an hour!! I still haven't seem it but I'm sure ha ha it will be fine. Then we went to Super Precio for milk....and they didn't have any! (we forgot it at Super Che)...So next stop ATM ha ha again, it was out of money! But the money truck drove up- then the guy told Ev it would be at least half an hour for them to fill it up. Ha ha we ate an ice cream and decided to come back later. Luckily we bought that ice chest so at Super Precio we bought ice and yippee we have ice cream!! I've been wanting to buy an ice chest to keep in the car for food bought far from home ha ha. We were at Costco once & I bought lovely cheddar cheese (no yellow cheese around here) and some swiss. When we got home they were an oily mess. I put them in the fridge, but thought about it and threw them away. Haven't even tried for ice cream. Super Cge didn't have those little things you put in the freezer and then can put in the ice chest- oh maybe that's why we let the milk wait.

We bought the new lock for the gate cause this exercise thing we had, a bench that you us