Agiabampo

I have found yet another beautiful little shoreline on the outskirts of another tiny village of Agiabampo (the soft 'g' as in 'h'!) – I wonder what ‘bampo’ means, as several little towns have that as the last of their name.

Agiabampo is several paved miles off the highway, and then dirt roads thru town to the little u-shaped ‘harbor’ where several boats are moored. These boats are not the larger fishing boats of Yavaros but they are also not just the row boats.

There are ‘speed’ boats with motors, almost appearing to be a boat club. But I am sure they are fishing boats, just longer than Yavaros - maybe they go out into the Pacific?

There are a couple of deserted half-built/fallen structures and one with plastic draped over parts of it that make it appear inhabited.

There is only one old man hanging out under a “cabana”. As I approach him, he extends a wrinkled hand and warm smile. I tell him my usual sob story, I speak poor Spanish but is it okay if I park here.

“Muy bien, muy bien” he says over and over, smiling at the truck and pointing. I take that to mean I am parked in a good location and it’s okay, although I do hear him say something like he is only a trabajador, worker.

I have passed miles and miles and miles of huge plowed fields, looking like the mega-agri-farms of the midwest. I see only two crops – imagine that – corn, of course, and another small plant that if it had red fruit, I would guess tomatoes.

But I could see no fruit. One field of such plants had workers bent over in the hot sun, maybe harvesting but I couldn’t tell.

Many fields are just rows and rows and rows, most likely ready to plant. A few fields are newly leveled and not yet plowed.

It is so quiet here, the only sounds are the birds singing and calling to each other, diving in the water for fish, and the occasional boat that is being moored. But the tide is out and I’m sure no more boats will return now.

And the occasional motor of a vehicle. No one has approached me besides the old man on the bicycle.

I hope it is okay that I park here – and spend the nite. I saw a hand-written sign a few miles back but couldn’t read it all. Oh, some of the land is for cattle – I saw several cow fields on my way here.

When I drove into the town, the paved road ended and two donkeys stood next to each other, waiting.

Goats and chickens walk freely around the road, and a horse or two eat from the sparse grass. And I could hear pigs squealing from somewhere.

Womyn and children hang out in the shade together. Men seem to gather in front of homes or buildings.

This town is much more spread out than Yavaros, with tiny houses built on huge lots of land. No one seems to be scrunched together or sharing walls, as in Yavaros. I pass a school and a few children in uniform; and a couple of places that could be a business.

And of course, the church in the middle of the town!

Not as many dogs as in Yavaros either. Men on horseback and bicycle, womyn walking.

I will most likely leave tomorrow morning and head to Los Mochis – I think I’m about 60 miles away. I hope to get on the internet there and maybe find some aceite vegetal. I’ve been running 50 miles diesel, 50 miles veggie oil – so I probably have used up most of my filtered veggie oil.

I will most likely then head out to a little place on the ocean again called “Las Glorias” for my friend Gloria! It seems to be by a pretty large town so maybe I’ll get internet there. I’d like to collect lots of oil and then let it sit for at least a week before I filter it.

We’ll see.

Time to study Spanish!

I really fucked up, I realized as I was driving here. One of Chuyita’s nieces, Gabby, was really good at first understanding what I was trying to say, and 2^nd correcting my Spanish. I missed the opportunity last night when Veronica said I could teach Gabby English and she could teach me Spanish.

I don’t know where my head is at sometimes. I could have stayed longer in Yavaros and asked Gabby to teach me Spanish. Grrrrrrr

Oh well, I won’t miss that opportunity again, that’s for sure, as soon as it happens!