CMaDFA: South America visit Learn about Meal-a-Day projects with Bruce Parker and Steve Johnson while they travel in South America.

Rules and Regulations

I'm about to be politically incorrect and use someone else's challenged English for a smile or two (readily acknowledging that I can hardly say ten words in Spanish.)  As I've said a couple of times already Bruce and I are funding this exploratory mission entirely ourselves.  I'm pointing this out, not as a self-pat on the back, but so that you realize that money contributed to  Christadelphian Meal-a-Day Fund of the Americas goes virtually completely toward doing the good you want it to do.  We've stayed at fairly budget places along the way and this has led to a some amusement.

It's fascinated me for some time that every twenty four hours every human being on the earth needs to go completely unconscious and be absolutely vulnerable for a few hours. We all need a safe place to crash.  Even homeless people look for the least unsafe place to sleep on the street.  So anyway, we've discovered that it doesn't take too much to provide the basics.  And if there is hot water, all the better!

Actually, at $30 a night for the both of us together, the Hotel del Inca was great.  The shower was great!  And as you can see it was well appointed:

But here's what really caught our eye and gave us a chuckle...the regulations on the back of the door.  I've copied the three most interesting out below.

#2. For more confort our guest as are requested to cancel their bills at the reception desk on the day before departing.

#3. Reporting to the Lords to passengers for the purposes of payment the day ended at 10:00 am if, for any reason the passenger does not have withdrawn their belongings must make a new day for lodging.

#7. Back of the room will be delivered to the lobby every time you leave the passenger’s hostal equal to withdrawal.

Then there are the rules posted in the bathroom at the hostel we're staying at in La Paz:

The Adventure Brew Hostel is $7 a night per person when you sleep dorm style.  Notice the sign doesn't say anything about no guns.  Fortunately I left my paisley tie at home due to weight considerations.

We got to La Paz around one A.M. and had to creep into our bunks using flashlights so we wouldn't wake the other people in the room.

This is the shower head in the Adventure Brew's bathroom.  It's got electricity running through it to give you an extra tingle.  Okay, not really.  What happens is that as soon as water flows through it it heats it up right there on the spot. Notice the nice job of hooking up the wires.  Here's the thing: the voltage in Bolivia is 230.  I find that and being very grounded in the shower a little disconcerting.

It's kind of hard to imagine that we still have a bunch of projects to review in the next week. And that there's still one more country to visit. I'm looking forward to our prison visit here in La Paz on Tuesday.  We just discovered tonight that three inmates are taking a Christadelphian Bible correspondence course.

Thanks for your continued interest.  I'll fill you in on chimneys and smoke free homes tomorrow.

Steve