Taxis can be a pain too

A foreigner can't walk along the street, or stand waiting for a bus, without every taxi that passes - in either direction - honking its horn, flashing its lights, calling "Taxi?" out the window, or all three. What's with these guys? Don't they realize that if we wanted a taxi, we would somehow indicate that fact by waving, or calling, etc?

It isn't the same in every town, but the taxis here are definitely out of control and clueless that they are quite irritating to folks. You just have to tune them out.

It took a little while to locate one this morning, but again we managed to run errands without using UTAAZ taxis, though we decided to walk across town to get back home this morning when the place to where we had gone had a line of over half a dozen UTAAZ taxis waiting their "turn". The excercise felt great and we bought some fresh squeezed OJ and some fresh bananas with the 20 pesos we saved!