First of all, thanks to Kara for updating me with this great photo of cyclist David Clinger (who I've mentioned before). He's being forced by Webcor to remove his facial tattoo to keep his job as a pro-cyclist… He's a good looking guy and this tattoo really accents his face nicely (although I'm not sold that it's top quality work), and it's wrong for them to strong-arm him like this. Anyway, this clipping is from The Province out in British Columbia, Canada.
As a result of
Webcor's forcing him to remove the tattoo — they're basically saying
“either quit your career or remove the tattoo” because of the unique nature of his job — he's going to end up with an enormous amount of pain and quite possibly a face with bad scarring… Maybe one day he'll be able to cash in by suing
Webcor into the stone age, but I doubt it.
I'm doing some work here at the hotel, so I thought some people might be interested to see a pretty heavy-duty new piercing a friend of mine just did… it's a shaft ampallang right through the base. Here's some (adults only nsfw) pictures of it:
There are more high-res photos of it and his other modifications in the next update, which I'll probably upload within the next few days (it's ready, I just have to find the time and place to transfer it). I think I could write a good article at this point about updating a high traffic online project while traveling!
Here are a few photos of the extravagant hotel we're at right now. Like I said, it really is over-the-top… The left photo is the view from our room, and the rest are assorted pictures from around the grounds of the hotel. Everything is very well done, although the all-black “yes massa” service really is somewhat disturbing and I don't like it. Maybe I'm not adapting culturally as well as I should, but it feels wrong.
We're here for another night and then we're off either to Capetown, or up to spend our last few days of vacation in chilly, chilly Amsterdam… of course, I'll be so
high I won't know the difference (I don't partake in that in Mexico at all). On my way out of this region though I'll take lots of pictures as it's a
poor and abused rural zone that's very different than most of what I've posted on this trip. It appears to be a mix of subsistence farming, ranching, platinum mining, and apparently also selling turtles (for soup I imagine, although Rachel thought it might just be an advertising gimmick) to passing cars at intersections.
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