…and find Ramon’s son Rodrigo. Rodrigo is 14 and got to take the day off school to ‘work the buses’ for Crystal’s city transfers. He saw us from across the street and called ‘ola viejo’ ‘hey old man’, beaming and rushing over, throwing his arms around his dad and at the same time pulling his tips, a wad of dollar bills, from his pocket. It was utterly charming.
Another cute thing – Ramon would call home every night and his wife would ask him ‘so, how is your tourist?’. For some reason that really tickled me.