Night in Tunisia

up in smoke

Here's a novel solution to the problem of waste by the roadside. Burn it.

As I walked with Tiara the twenty minutes or so to her pick-up point for work this morning, we wandered past tiny fire after tiny fire in the ditch on the side of the road. "Doesn't that seem a little odd in a semi-arid area?" She asked. And yes, yes it does. For the environmentally conscious amoung us, it also seems odd to see plastic bags, old chunks of tire, packing foam, shrubs, chunks of tar and cardboard bits all lumped in together in neat flaming piles.

That stunk.

Ah well, welcome to the genuine high-end third world. And in other news the temp here is up in the low thirties to high twenties... which is a little warm, you know? And in the sun... But Janice knows that this makes me smile! No more Edmonton and its insubstantial heat!

posted by Loren @ 4:44 p.m.