Physics Lessons, Riding Down a Mountain, Open-Backed Russian Trucks, Rain Storms!

 

The sun was shining as we started down the mountain from Codina. But dark storm clouds hung to our left. When the first drops fell, we rearranged ourselves on the seats so no one got too wet. We all laughed.

 When the sky opened up and we were barreling down through the muddy ruts at 30 miles an hour we grabbed our jackets and ponchos.

Storm sewers have not been a priority here. Deep streams of muddy water started cascading down the road with us.

The roof leaked. Streams of rain deepened on the "road".

Milena and our local guide . . . a guy named Janet (because his mother expected a girl baby) . . . tried to roll down the side curtains. Ha!  By then we were soaked.

 You can learn a lot of physics in an open-backed truck in a pouring-down storm.  As we ran through a runoff ditch, waves were propelled onto our feet by the momentum of crashing through at 25 miles an hour, or whatever. Splashing water lapped into the truck bed soaking the folks up front . .  that would be Arnold and Ismini. 

It also caused the driver to brake. All the water on the roof that hadn't leaked through rust holes around each screw cascaded over the back showering the few of us lucky enough to be sitting at the back . . . that would be mostly Russ, but a little bit me too. Inertia demonstration noted! Yikes what and adventure. 

We survived to the bottom. Picture-taking was on hiatus during the deluge!

Soggily we boarded our regular bus at about 4:00 for a four-hour drive to the north coast seashore and our next hotel.