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Hound Dog

Nov 12, 2009, 5:11 PM

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Driving Miss Daisy

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There is this fellow posting on another thread regarding the drive from Huatulco southeast on Highway 200 to the Guatemala border through towns dotting the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca state and transiting into Chiapas and along the coast through Tonalá and Tapachula to Guatemala and this poster denigrates the scenery and urban centers to be experienced along the way to the border positing that there is no there there (my words) and when I read this I am astonished that anyone with a modicum of intelligence can make such an assertion while traversing through one of the most treasured lands in the Americas and I am reminding of the movie DRIVING MISS DAISY when Hoak (Miss Daisy´s driver who had never been out of Atlanta in his life) said to Miss Daisy while driving her from Atlanta to Mobile and having just entered Eastern Alabama for the first time en route, exclaimed to Miss Daisy, "Well Miss Daisy, I´ve been in Alabama for about 15 minutes now and it don´t show me nothin´"

This fellow who claims to be from Tabasco and engaged in agricultural and ranching and retail pursuits there informs us that there is nothing worthy of seeing on Mexico´s southwestern Pacific coast between Huatulco, Oaxaca and the Guatemala border and here is what I have to say about that:

There is a relatively new autopista from Minatitlan, Veracruz to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas and if you don´t know that road here is what you need to know. The autopista cuts through Veracruz, Tabasco and Chiapas states and it is one beautiful drive overall but only about 50 or less kilometers of that auropista cut through Tabasco territory between Veracruz and Chiapas states and that part of the drive is unremarkable at best and unrepresentative of Tabasco state in general. So, using the logic of this Tabasco fellow regarding his drive south from Huatulco to Tuxtla Gutierrez, I suggest the following remarks from Hoak:

"Well, Miss Daisy, I´ve been in Tabasco for about 15 minutes now and it don´t show me nothin´"

Ignorance is universal.

(This post was edited by Hound Dog on Nov 12, 2009, 5:18 PM)