Editorial Note: In April, I took a month off in Medellin. For me, this meant an interesting and diverting month. For you, this means 30 days of posts about my vacation. I’ll try to make them somewhat amusing.
I don’t want to say that Colombians are, as a people, reckless drivers, but I will say that you see a lot of this sort of thing:
I will also note that although you sometimes see a police van or ambulance driving around with its flashers on, none of the other drivers seem to care. There’s literally no difference that I can see in the progress of an ambulance with or without its christmas trees going. It’s weird.
(Addendum: Apparently the other drivers will get out of the way when the sirens come on. That still doesn’t explain the purpose of only turning on the flashers, though.)
Also cool are the guys riding tandem on motorcycles carrying 12-foot PVC or copper pipe runs like lances. Wish I could have gotten a picture of that.
