I just got back from two weeks in Central America, in girlfriend Patricia's native El Salvador to be specific. For all the traveling I've done, it was my first time venturing outside the safe, comfortable, privileged bubble of the first world, and I fully expected to have my mind blown in all sorts of ways. I did not, however, expect to have my mind blown by cars.That's what happened, though. It's a fascinating and beautiful place, El Salvador. Largely rural and undeveloped through most of the last century, it spent the duration of the 1980s immersed in civil war and in the twenty years since...
