Yesterday I took a bike ride, as I often do. But this time I stopped along the way to take some photos just to show you what it is like around here…My journey covered just over 20 miles—a couple miles more than a typical distance, but not unusual.
I left the Legters’ home, where I am staying, and went out past the seminary onto the road to Dzitya, a stone and wood artisan’s town about 2 miles east of the seminary gate. I went through Dzitya onto a road heading towards Kochen, past a cement plant and two small villages. On the edge of one of the villages is a cenote that I stopped to swim in a couple days ago, but did not this time. After just under 10 miles I turned around and retraced my steps through Dzitya and past some fancy homes, but kept going a few hundred yards when I came to the seminary gate and rode into a sub-development called Las Americas. Down the street I went, past the small strip mall to the Oxxo store, where I was disappointed to find that the KFreeze machine was not working. From there it was back to the seminary, past the SKY satellite television kiosk that sits at the entrance to the development and past Blas Pascal, a school started by a local Presbyterian Church. I maneuvered through two sets of Topes (tarmac ridges or steel bumps strategically placed on the road to slow traffic), back to the Legters. The temperature was around 90 and the ride was wonderful…Just a little report on what it is like around this place where God has put me for these two months…