Pacajá

We drove to Pacajá and back yesterday. The team there had a few questions about setting the steel for the bond beam on top of the foundations. Ivanildo talked to the engineer here in Marabá. Then we drove out, helped them get started for a couple of hours, had lunch with them and met the team from Columbus, and then drove home. We left the house at 6 a.m., and got home at 6 p.m. It was a good day.

On the way home I crested a hill in an area in an area where the TransAmazon Highway is almost like a tunnel through the trees. Suddenly there was a truck stopped on the steepest part of the hill. He was trying to pull another truck up backwards, one that had stalled halfway up the hill. As they all discussed endless options, the traffic started backing up in both directions. A bus passed all the cars and trucks from the other side and was coming up close to the broken truck when the cable broke. No brakes! The broken truck picked up speed going backwards. The bus picked up speed going forward to get out of the way. The bus missed getting broadsided by about 2 inches. The truck ended up in a washout gully and twisted it’s frame. The driver’s door wouldn’t open. I felt sad for the driver.

As we drove past there were some flowers alongside the road that were backlit. I took a picture our of the car window with my phone, and somehow the light reflected the flower into the tiny lens. I’ll include the photo. You can see the original backlit flower in the brush in the background.