From a City-sponsored flyer available at the local Tourist Information Bureau and translated, lovingly and very unpunkly, by me:
“So you want to adapt quickly to San Marcos Sierras?
• Say hello to everyone you come across in the street
• Give the right-of-way to pedestrians, bicycles and horses
• Smile, even for no reason
• Throw trash in the provided bins
• Never drive faster than 30km/hr
• Walk a lot, and at some point in the day, go barefoot
• Enjoy the silence of the Sierra
• Be kind, simple, and understanding
• Take the time to share maté with friends
• Play in the sand, the river, and with the children
• Always direct your attitude and your thoughts towards positive things
• Look up at the night sky and discover how many more stars there are than you’d ever imagined
• From the moment you wake up, breathe deeply
• Discover new paths in the hills
• Only camp in indicated spots
• Eat bread, honey and homemade sweets, all with the faint aroma of nature and campfire
• Try and distinguish the smell of the tree from its fruits and flowers
• Don’t write on the walls or on the rocks of the river
• Love things the way Mother Nature made them
• Do a tour of the plaza “to see what’s new”
MOST IMPORTANTLY: BE HAPPY”
Seventeen-year-old me reads this (she’s been nagging at me lately) and I can hear her now. She’s ranting, “This is bullshit! You can’t expect me to read a fucking flyer and then suddenly follow all your rules on how to be happy. I’ll smile when I want and breathe how I want and camp where I want. You pretend to enjoy silence and sniff the trees and you walk barefoot, you fucking hippy.” And I would have punkly crumpled up the flyer and tossed it right in your face. In my face. Into my own face, because now I like this flyer. I love it actually. It’s obviously directed at a certain kind of S.U.V.-roaring tourist who needs to be brought down a notch and I love that I live in a town where the municipality funds pointed hippy drivel like it. But seventeen-year-old me is still indignant. She wants to headbutt me in the face and break my nose. She wants to paint the cross on the hill black and urinate publically on the mayor and move the fuck out of this hippy bubble to somewhere that’s really real. Fortunately, forty-year-old me is still one tough cookie and she backhands seventeen-year-old me and tells her to shut the fuck up, or else. This leaves us both rather quiet for now.
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