More photos from the road

As I looked through my pictures from a recent trip, I realize that a photo montage post is in order. I took these pictures on a recent trip to the province of Esmeraldas to develop sites for new Peace Corps volunteers. Esmeraldas is located in the northwest corner of the country and is home to much of the Afro-Ecuadorian community.

It is awesome.



Fish and coconut are two of the biggest industries in Esmeraldas. They have managed to combine these two into one fine plate: encocado fish. They even make the white rice look good.



In this family's house, there is only one place to get cell reception. You will notice that they have made a pocket out of tape on the window and placed their phones in it.



This "For Sale" sign has four misspellings and should have one more word than it currently does. Only one of the words is spelled correctly.



The province is famous for its beaches. We were working the whole time and didn't get any time to enjoy the beach, but I did get to snap this pic of the view from Mompiche.



They were selling mangoes by the bucket on the side of the road for one dollar per bucket.



So we bought three buckets, which amounted to at least 60 mangoes.



"What men have on their mind." - Freud. We saw this sign at the restaurant we were eating at. It says something about a culture when they have a picture like this on the wall at a family restaurant.



Check out this guy just laid out on top of some bamboo on the back of this truck.