Chapter 5

This post is about chapter 5 in the book Walking With Wolf. The topic of this post is about the highways of America compared to Costa Rica.

Here in America we we have millions of cars, millions of roads, and thousands of highways. All of which most take for granted, but most countries that have none or very few of these think of them as a necessity. The reason most Americans take these things for granted is because almost everyone owns a car and grew up with one. Countries like Costa Rica that have just started getting more motorized vehicles and paved roads. Many roads in Costa Rica were impassible for vehicular traffic before they were paved, due to deep ruts from wagon wheels pulled by oxen or due to extremely deep muddy roads. In order for jeeps and other vehicles to get through, they had to dig and fill in holes and tire ruts. Now that there are some roads and highways are paved more vehicular traffic was coming to Costa Rica. Here in the United States of America, we have thousands of paved highways with millions of cars driving on them per year. In Costa Rica, there is one highway that is paved, The Pan American Highway. Here in the US we have smooth highways in almost all of the country, but in Costa Rica, the smoothest parts of the highway are like our bumpy, pothole infested roads. In Costa Rica, although driving at night is allowed, it is not recommended due to the bumps and potholes. The bumps and potholes are not the only reason it is not recommended, the other reasons are the sharp turns, and bad light that can lead to a crash.