I rode my bike home from the office in the dark tonight. I’m not used to doing that for a couple reasons – we just changed our clocks here in Guatemala, so it gets dark an hour earlier (when the actual sunset only varies 30 minutes all year long!) AND it’s dangerous so I avoid it when I can. I have to ride down a highway for 1 km that is unlit and that has claimed the lives of many people in recent years. What is perhaps most perilous though is the roadkill that I can’t see. There was a dead dog on the shoulder next to our driveway 2 nights ago. Then there are the toads, the big toads. On the street that they are redoing in front of the office, there are open, unmarked manholes (I’ve already dropped my front right car tire in one of those babies) to dodge in the dark. Plus it’s raining, so visibility is distorted by the reflections of whatever light is coming at you. Just a tiny bit freaky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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