Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Lalapalooza's in La Paz.

The day before to arrive in the town of La Paz, Baja California, Mexico, in cold blood the police commissioner was assassinated.
A man pumped 9 bullets in his body and escaped in an old Toyota later found.

This used to be a peaceful and quiet town but now it has become clear much more is happening here.
A few days ago a load of cocaine was confiscated in a house in Comondu.

Drugs, because in this part of the world they are illegal, bring havoc and destruction to societies.
It ruins lives and social infrastructures.

As long as there is demand and as long as it is illegal, an underground movement is created that is hard to control and impossible to eradicate.

Today the Fuso Szulc will undergo another technical adjustment.
Chaim, the mechanic, will lift up the camper box from the chassis and put rubber blocks in between.
To stop the scraping and gliding.
To have the slight movements the front part of the camper box is making absorbed into the rubber instead of having them released in friction of the metal of the bar underneath the camper box with the top of the chassis.
Actually, in the original list of requirements presented to Santek Trailers before the building of the Fuso Szulc, this inventor and designer had clearly indicated that the front part of the camper box had to be on rubber blocks.
This had been learned from a visit to Bimobil in Germany a year before.
But somehow, like several other things, this requirement was not followed.

The other technical adjustment is to replace the monitor of the Seelevel Tank Monitor.
However, it looks this is not going to happen at short notice.
The parcel containing the new part had finally arrived in Mexico City and was waiting to be cleared by customs, so UPS said.
Yesterday, for inexplicable reasons, after having been in limbo for 5 days, the parcel was returned from Mexico City to Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
And the same day from Louisville, Kentucky, USA to Tijuana, Mexico, where the parcel already has been before.



For a simple photographer, and probably many other people as well, including many fervent and loyal blog readers, it is hard to understand why it is so difficult to transport a small parcel from a place in Texas, USA, to a place in Mexico.
And why it is being shipped in loops to the same places.
It has been in Louisville, Kentucky 4 times now…

It is all becoming rather absurd.
Fortunately, Don Shapansky of Garnet Industries Ltd has explained a way to solve temporarily the problem with the water pump.
If someone needed a part real bad, maybe even have life depend on it, good luck!
This parcel is now travelling in Franz Kafka’s sphere for 12 days…

Not mentioned yet is the break down of the Fantastic Fan Ventilator in the spacious bathroom.
This is the second time it breaks down.
And again it is the same part.
A small thing that controls the on/off of the ventilator by lifting up or closing down the dome.
It should automatically jump in an upward position when the dome opens, but it is not doing this.
Seems a spring inside is missing.
Customer Service of Fantastic Vent has been informed but as for now no response has come.
The failing part is now circumvented and the fan controlled by another on/off switch.

Meanwhile in La Paz mixed feelings rage inside the personal emosphere.
This is mainly because the work at El Triple is not finished.
There are still some great ideas waiting to be executed at El Triple and the moment to return cannot be soon enough.






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