Miscommunication

This occurs roughly 15 times a day in countries different from your own.

For example, finding a bus. No one really knows in Latin America, but everyone wants to be helpful. So someone says at 2.30, another says 4 and another says it won't come today. Who to believe?

Getting off a bus can prove difficult when unaware of specifics. We wanted to get to the information center at a (giant) national park, and told the bus driver helper we didn't know when to get of, so he said not to worry. Of course, he promptly fell asleep. Others on the bus told us not to worry. One man (bless his sweet heart) said in English, "Take it easy."

But.

We wound up on the wrong side of the park.

All in a good days work.

Best story yet: We were to stay with a local, I'll call him Jaime, to hang out at his farm.

But.

He didn't tell us he had final exams. So he studied all night our first night there, then left early the next morning, leaving his dad to barge into our little cabin and demand why we were still there. We just wanted to do some laundry and read and relax at the tranquilo farm. Instead, Bonnie ended up milking cows and I feigned sick so I could sleep and not yell at him for being unreasonable.

(Photo of Bonnie about to milk cows, and the cabin where I napped)