I was headed out of town for Thanksgiving (recap: emaciated turkey, American company, awesome hiking) when my moto driver and I came across a disconcerting sight: a barricade of sorts, a huge log suspended off the road, restricting our passage. My first thought was bandits, land pirates (there have been several instances in which PCV travel was restricted due to bandits and in one case a volunteer had to move to a different village after hers was raided by bandits, one of many instances in which the story is much cooler than actually living through the experience). Instead, the men manning the barricade asked for money to repair the roads that had been heavily eroded. They were local men who probably use the dirt road of out town to transport whatever crops they grow for selling in towns along the paved road and realized that, as the state has insufficient funds for road repair, they would have to take matters into their own hands. This way people who use the road regularly and see immediate benefits to its improvement can be responsible for its upkeep.
(The road block has been removed but no work on the road has been been done as of yet.)
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