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As I wrote earlier, I have been ill.
All day.
Jools is feeling tip top, so while I lay hovering close to death laying in my pit, she went to the gym for a workout, then, on the way back gets me a coffee from Starbucks opposite the hotel. Opposite and down a bit, then to the left. But close enough.
I drink that pretty quick, but I am not feeling very sharp at all.
So after Jools has a shower, she goes out for a wander and I stay in bed, listening to the radio, whilst my stomach empties.
And by one in the afternoon, I was feeling more human, so I began to think about what to do when Jools came back. And at just gone two, I see her in her coat coming back, carrying a huge cup of coffee for me.
She has been out on the L, going to various points she knew not where, as got lost twice, but had a good time.
What did I want to do?
Ride the L of course.
She sighs. Well, she put the idea in my head.
At quarter to three we go out, walk three blocks to the subway, where three bucks gets us one trip, to anywhere in the system.
We take two stops, then get out and go to the street onto the L, where I am happy as anything, standing at the very back of the train, snapping the scene as the train headed south.
After three stops, and going round a tight curve at a junction, of which I get pictures. And I am happy.
We get off and wander along the streets, stopping off at a health food place for a bag of chips and some juice.
I felt a little better.
Walk some more, back over the river, on a road that ran parallel with Michigan, as the designer shops and crowds are so boring.
After a few blocks, I see a tap room, and I am thirsty, so go over for a pint of porter. Which hits the spot, but goes straight to my head.
Of course.
Meanwhile, the dark clouds that had swept over the city in the afternoon were now producing light rain, and we scuttled north getting closer to the hotel.
We come to a bbq place, and I say, shall we eat here? I mean, its nearly five, eat early, back in our room and relax?
So we do.
Jools has a half baby back rib and I have brisket, both of which were good. Stunning to me who had not eaten in some 22 hours.
As ever, the food came with a side, and we also asked for onion rings. A small mountain of those came, which we made a fair dent in.
The ribs and brisket were stunning, the best of either I have had. So a win there.
But we left so much food as we both had had enough. It will get trashed.
The rain had stopped, so we walk back to the hotel in the thinning crowds as the time approached half six, and back in our room soon after.
Tomorrow, things will change, somewhat....
Styer artic tipper crosses the Bahnhofstraße (Station Road) bridge over the river Inn, Wattens, Austria.
Austria 2007.
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The infamous Smoky Mountain proved too much of an embarrassment to government officials and was closed; now Payatas is the main site for dumping. It is a smelly, hot toxic tip, of about 220 hectares. It is home to 200,000 urban poor families.
Women, men and children scavenge the waste from dawn to dusk, collecting cans, plastic, scrap metals, bottles and newspapers to earn 60-70 pesos per day. The minimum needed by a family of six (the average size of a Filipino family), as calculated by the National Economic Development Agency, is 250 pesos per day.
Life is hard in Payatas. Women give birth amidst Manila's refuse, without safe water, electricity or professional help. Wells exist, but it often takes half an hour to 45 minutes to reach them. The smell is hard to bear, but the people of Payatas are accustomed to it.
It is not the smell that is deadly; it is the toxic fumes rising from decomposing plastic, bottles and scrap. People on the scrap heaps die at about 40 years because of these fumes.
Companies require at least high school level education before they hire. Parents in most urban poor communities do not have the money to enrol their children in high school. If you are born in Payatas, you remain there.
The people of Payatas have no safe water, electricity, sewerage or government assistance in job searching. They live in one-room shacks made of cardboard, tin or leftover wooden planks. In some families, sleeping is rotated because the room is not large enough to accommodate all the bodies.
The government is threatening to take even this away from the people. Demolition teams destroy shantytowns with no thought for destroyed lives. In Payatas, the poor are struggling for the right to remain and scavenge. The government has threatened to close the dump by the end of 1994. The local mayor promised the community that he would provide livelihood programs, but the discussions have led to nothing concrete. Seventy-five per cent of the Payatas population directly or indirectly live off the dump.
There are legitimate concerns about the location of the dump. The main water supply for Quezon City and other parts of metro-Manila (catering for about half a million people) is two kilometres from Payatas. In the rainy season, run-off from the dump contaminates the water supply.
The conditions we saw at Payatas were appalling. First World pets live in better conditions than some of the urban poor. The reasons for this kind of poverty? The Philippines has a debt of $36 billion. Two-third of the country's budget goes towards servicing this debt. The second priority of the corrupt Ramos government is military spending.
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund dictate these kind of priorities.
The United States in 1909 imposed "free trade" on the colonised Philippines. This ensured that the Philippine economy remained agriculturally based, a market for US manufactured products.
After the second world war, with the country in ruins, the US agreed to provide aid only if the economy was tied even tighter to US interests. When governments tried to halt the unequal trade relations, the IMF withdrew funding. The US and its economic think-tanks, the IMF and World Bank, have not only the Philippines in debt. Almost every other Third World country has undergone World Bank "structural adjustment programs" which only weaken their economies — and the people.
An FM Volvo 8-wheeled tipper lorry with self-loading hydraulic crane plods through a dull Sowerby Bridge.
You won't go hungry at the Northern California Renaissance Faire. Great food and renaissance frivolity to go with it.
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Here's a tip for of y'all that view this refurb as ugly. Try viewing the bus as a e200 for a few days maybe (1-3?) and then u might slowly adjust to the look of it like I did. Or maybe that's just the way my brain works idk