Posted by johndan at October 28, 2004 11:05 PM | TrackBackThe formalities were endless. We signed, by actual count, twenty-eight documents. We had taken to describing ourselves as a driver and mechanic because officials were used to that. Garry was generally the mechanic, primarily because he found mechanico an easy Spanish word to say. An orbiting official signed and stamped our logbook with the date and time.
We weren't, Garry thought, drivers so much as men who carried documents.
Documentaros, I said.
Tim Cahill, Road Fever, p. 171