You hope the gods are smiling on you...

...when you are taking a por puesto (rickety van-type transport that fills in the public transport gaps where the buses don´t take you). Our particular driver had homages to both the Pope and Mr. Incredible posted in his van. I´d take either in a pinch. We returned to Merida via a different, equally precipitious mountain road. Suddenly, everyone in the entire bus crossed themselves. I looked back to see that we had just passed a church. Here is one of the many, many elaborate minature shrines along the road from Merida to Jaji, the Andean town high above the valley we visited yesterday. ras