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I enjoy going to the open markets and wanted to be able to tell others the open markets were safe. Obviously since I was pick pocketed they are not. I made a plan . As I left my hotel I took the street they told me not to go down .. Lots of people walking and it did not look rough at all. After several blocks I came to a gas station . I was quite surprised. It had a cage built around it and to get gas they stuck the hose through the bars. Quite impressive and spoke volumes. I decided to get on a safer street. At the market I went to the vendors who saw me get pick pocketed. I gave them my card and a phone number to reach me . I ask them to give it to the pickpocketer and I wanted to buy his supper .
M cold has slowed me down a lot . Went to the plaza by the Historic Carnegie Library and took photos of the wood carvers.. Enjoyed the woodcarver I am posting and made him an offer of a beer anytime.
The hotel desk called me and told the they were booked Sunday and Monday and I had to find another hotel..HMM, Fate.. Larry cab 20 is my life line. It has been a challenge being new here and rainy and using extra caution being out at night .. Called him and told him fate said I need a new place to stay , Guyana style.. So tomorrow I check into a hotel with bad shower , and lumpy bed but real Guyana style atmosphere. I really wanted to do this anyway , just took a little fate.

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Enclosing photo of larry cab 20 phone number 6986363. I am trusting him a lot and if he comes through I will give him the highest referral. If I do not post anymore blogs I would not recommend this cab.

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I once spent time in the square of Oaxaca, Mexico . I try to find places off the beaten path yet realized quickly the tourist relaxing in the square were of the same cut as I . They had flown in from around the world and were taking buses and trains and even hitchhiking Mexico. Our conversations were not of fancy drinks , beaches or souvenir shops but of people and life. It was the only place in my life I have ever sat at a table and knew I was going to enjoy the company of the next person.
Why are some drawn so far away from home, not to climb a mountain or swim in coral reefs but to experience life. Are we , the carriers of the capitalistic torch , so in tune with life that the only thing left to experience or conquer is reefs, rivers and mountains?
I have spent a lot of time in back roads of 3rd worlds. I have seen children beg for water and mothers offer their starving child yet I did not learn from that . I only felt guilty . I have given everything in my suitcase and every thing I could part with in my car to these people , yet again I only felt guilty . I then realized a secret . Give them my alpha. They envision us almost as gods. We have everything and surely lack nothing , yet when you peel an apple for grandpa or play jacks with rocks with the children they begin seeing the common ground. If you can then give them alpha and they accept letting your sorry ass in the building you will start to see magic.
The safer we are and the more we have, the more we live in the future instead of the moment . The United States is a country which lives in the future sense. We give up here and now for what we expect to have in the future. Those with nothing and empty bellies do not have this luxury and live in the moment.. There is nothing more magical than living in the moment .. A very simple example is tell someone they had a very pretty dress on last week at dinner and they will feel warmth . Tell them they have a very pretty dress on and their soul will purrr. The moment is the art of life . The past and future tense is a description of it .
I am leaving for Guyana in a few days. I chose it because it was the lowest standard of living country which spoke English. My suitcase is packed with photography equipment and mother Peep and 10 boxes of pink and yellow marshmallow peeps. Using peeps in photography is like walking a beach with a cute puppy . It disarms.
Stay tuned , I would enjoy sharing this experience with you .