Power Stabilized

Transportation and the Lack Thereof

Shannon Ubers home here because she is severely injured. Authors are cautioned to avoid touches in their work that would date them. I have thought upon this and concluded that in these modern times with technology changing so fast--and society changing with it-- authors can't help but date their work. Think of heroines alone and threatened, unable to call anyone because the phone lines have been cut. The authors had no way to know that later heroines would have cell phones in hand to call for help. So perhaps Ubers will go the way of the land line one day. Fine. Hopefully a reader will be immersed enough in the story they will accept these quaint references and move on. Speaking of Ubers, we don't have them in my little town in Costa Rica. We have taxis, which you can sometimes reach and sometimes not, which come and sometimes not. This has been my mode of transport since I arrived for those places I couldn't reach on foot. But finally! My car is up and running. I accomplished things yesterday that would have taken a week before. Lacking an auto has been a great learning experience for me. Humbling and insightful. And shrinking my world.