The neighbour

The building of the resort at El Triple, Baja California, Mexico has been halted due to lack of financing.



The storage and garage building is more or less ready.
The foundations where the guest rooms will be are in place.
And that’s it.



At the location are building materials like cement, the mixer and an earth-moving tractor.





To protect the resort under construction, an old Terry trailer has been hauled over the torturing dirt road to El Triple.
And in this trailer lives Juaquin.
A 51-year old Mexican from a village about an hour from El Triple.
His job is to guard and protect.
To avoid vandalism and stealing.



Juaquin is married and has two beautiful children.
The oldest will start studying at the University of La Paz in September.
The youngest, daughter Daniella, is in college.

Juaquin is in his Terry trailer at the resort location of El Triple non-stop.
24-24.
7-7.
No days off.
For five months now.
Getting 8.000 Mexican Pesos per month. ( € 423 , $ 600 )
A salary he considers well paid.



The Terry trailer is old.
The electrical system is not working anymore.
Therefore, the electronically controlled fridge is out of order.
So are the lights inside the trailer.
Fortunately the Terry has one lamp on propane.
And the cooking-stove still works.

Basically, Juaquin has not much to do.
Only guarding the building project but then nobody hardly ever comes around.

He has no television.
No electricity and TV-signal.
No radio.
No books to read.
Juaquin is just sitting watching the pelicans fly by.
Or laying on the bed seeing his dreams.
Day in, day out.

Nevertheless, and hardly imaginable, Juaquin is a man that is content.
Who is in harmony with his situation.
Who is beyond liking or not liking his job.
Who lives for his family and for the future of his kids.
Happy to have a job and to be able to finance the education of his children.

Every day there is a meeting with Juaquin.
With his three dogs he comes to the Fuso Szulc for a chat.
Well, of course.

Yesterday he borrowed the book “The PS-series”.
With rather surrealistic images made here at El Triple.

And now the plan is born to borrow him a Sony portable radio that happens to be on board the Fuso Szulc.
So Juaquin can listen to the news and to music.

Hey, we are neighbours, no?



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