Sunday, January 01, 2017
Trying To Improve
Someone decided to try to improve this area - planted trees, a fence, some paving... and then across the road from it, a shanty market. It makes you wonder. Less than a mile after that, beautiful views of the ocean with "improvements" in front.
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