Road Hazard

When traveling along many of the roads in Haiti - you'll notice quite a few hats lying in the middle of many of the highways and byways. At first, you wonder "why would folks throw away perfectly good hats"? But soon enough you realize they aren't "cast off" - rather they are "ripped off" the owners head while traveling down the road in excess of 50 MPH in the back of an open pick-up truck.  Don Bailey learned such a lesson last week - as, in the photo above -  he was jogging up a hill and back to the truck after retrieving his favorite baseball cap which was ripped from his head.

Unfortunately - about three minutes later - the same hat was again "ripped off", but Don - still winded from his first retrieval - thought it better to leave it in the road for a local citizen who might be better able to  keep it on their head - or perhaps they didn't ride in the back of a pickup truck. He kept asking me that evening "I wonder who has my hat?"