Juan Antonio

Juan Antonio Garcia was thirty two when he died on Highway 19 in Mexico. His descanso is solid, cemented into the ground like so many I have seen, and has what looks like a SUV on the top of the cross. “Fuiste, eres siempre serás nuestra mas bonita,” says the sign. “You were, are, and always will be our most beautiful one.”

Such sad sentiment.

Juan’s memorial has an agave plant directly in front of it, life rising from the ashes. Someday you may not even be able to see Juan’s descanso from the road as you speed by heading from Todo Santos to Cabo San Lucas.

And speed by you will. The speed limit in the area is maybe 90 KPH but you wouldn’t know it. I kept moving into the left lane because of trucks in this hilly countryside only to immediately have my rear view mirror filled with some much faster moving vehicle, anxious to get by me to wherever they were headed.

No wonder there were so many descansos in this shot stretch of road we traveled.