Go -- No Go!

[Marcelyn]

SIGUE (Go) 

Yesterday we were driving Avenue Boquete out of town when at the bottom of the hill stood a construction employee. He was moving a barrel location to block our lane entrance, so we stopped. Then we noticed he was holding and directing our attention to his large sign showing SIGUE. Of course we started moving forward and that’s when his orange gloved hand started waving and pointed for us to turn around. We yelled in Spanish “Please turn your sign” and “don’t use the sign”. 

He didn’t understand what we were trying to tell him. Perhaps he couldn’t hear or maybe he couldn’t read the information on the sign that he was displaying.

A few worry minutes as other drivers coming behind us were attempting to stop quickly in the mud and  gravel, others swerving to avoid a collision, some pulling around our car.

Bud made a sharp twist of the steering wheel, up over the curb and we got out of that confusing situation. Yikes—-His sign said one thing and his hands said the opposite!

[Brundageba]

In the 11 years we've been here, we've noticed this.   When the Interamerican was being worked on there were some real dangerous moments when we could have crashed.  If you don't anticipate bad directions from the road crew you could find yourself in a bad situation.  At times it's confusing and at times too little too late.  Glad you survived.