The roads here in Nosara are dirt with a little bit of gravel thrown in to remind you that you're wearing flip-flops. Since it's the dry season right now, there's no rain to keep the dust down, and it gets very, very dusty.
The local strategy for mitigating the dust problem is to wet down the roads. Yes, every so often a truck loaded with Mobil barrels will show up somewhere, and a crew of three or four guys will spend the day pouring the contents of said barrels onto the road. There is no pump or sprayer involved, the guys just pick up the barrels and slosh the contents out onto the road surface, gradually working their way down the stretch.
The first time you encounter one of these crews of sloshers can be pretty alarming. But don't worry, they aren't dumping petroleum on the road - they're dumping molasses. I don't know if it's diluted or if the molasses we buy in stores for baking has been concentrated, but in either case this molasses is not a viscous goo, but an eminently sloshable brown liquid. In any case, it still smells like molasses, and it definitely changes the road surface - now the gravel actually sticks to the bottom of your flip-flops.
Ok, now you're just making stuff up.
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