Oxen are used to pull ox carts and they still do. For a long time many plied the roads hauling mostly coffee and and other goods. I've only seen one ox cart. Two with this one at a small park.
Atenas is know for it's ox carts and this is the only real cart I've seen and it's on the road to town.
Barrio Los Angeles where I stay is actually the old road into Atenas. It dead ends about a half mile away where it begins a rather steep descent to a river. Moon shining was going on in days gone past and I understand recently somebody was making some. A friend and I made it down on what is left of the road. We took machete's and if it had not been for a fire I doubt we would have been able to discern where the road was. It was on this not too long of a hike saw a sloth which was nice.
There were as many as 400 carts a day using this road. So there was some drinking going on and when some guys got too drunk to walk along side their team of oxen to direct them they got on top of the ox cart.
In present day when the local's see an inebriated person they say that phrase "se monto enn la carretta" which translates to "looks like that person is on top of the ox cart".
I think that's is soooo funny. You can go here and see some real ox carts just the way they used to be back in those days.
Remember how the pictures get larger when you click on them??
Nice post!
ReplyDeleteThere is a infamous picture of my then not so old sergeant as atop a water buffalo while drunk down to the bone marrow!
I wonder is ox any good to eat? Now, I know I have eaten water buffalo that the Thai's claimed to be Kobe beef....
I have eaten other things - all center cut meat-
that could have killed me.
Sarge
Thanks for that Sarge. I bet it tastes pretty damn good actually. What the hell is a castrated ox called anyway. A steer ox? I doubt it.
DeleteOther meats here as well that most don't want to hear about. They all tasted pretty decent to me.
What was Lewis and Clarke's favorite. It was dog and they had many choices but jumped at that when ever they got the chance.
And yet Lewis and Clarke didn't eat their own dog.
ReplyDeleteDid you get to ride the ox? I bet that feels a lot different than riding a flexible horse.
No they did not eat their own pooch and that needed to be said.
ReplyDeleteAnd no I did not ride this animal Jan.
During one especially long period between being "resupplied" we called in a fire mission on two 'oxen' that looked very similar to the one in yer photo, there, 'Fly. They wouldn't let us get close enough to do the job with small arms, and kept moving into suspect tall elephant grass, sooo ..... There was no accompanying SP pack, but we were resupplied for a day or two. Tastes Great .... More Filling. We didn't eat OUR dog, either ....
ReplyDeleteMost of the carts in that parade look like they don't get a lot of use. Guess the car is taking over there, too.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm hungry bj. I'd try some so quick I tell you.
ReplyDeleteThey don't Cujo. There's so much traffic I tell you and that is an observation only. I stay on a road that is about a half mile from where it ends. There are short roads that go off from it with houses. The road carrys a lot of vehicles in a day. It surprises me how many. You have to pay attention when walking without a doubt.
Nice video. stay off the ox cart.
ReplyDeleteLate in the afternoon the drinking starts here. That is I share a beer a friend.
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