Tag: jungle
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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
That was the last day that I was clean shaven until the Corona disaster swept the country in 2020. Call it COVID-19 boredom if you will, but after online Sunday School and church, I went into the bathroom and hacked the beard off my face. Since we couldn’t go anywhere with the quarantine, and most…
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Hitchin’ Rides
We waited three hours for our next ride. As we hoisted ourselves onto the truck, we noticed a pile of garbage towards the front of the truck bed. As we tried to settle in we smelled it. It was not pleasant. There were rotten bananas and other unnamed, decomposing stuff that should have been thrown…
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Just Dropping In!
Sept 6, 1978 A mission organization from Switzerland, called Helimission, arrived in Bolivia a few months before. Its purpose was to use their helicopter to do mission and humanitarian work. It was a perfect fit in our quest to find the illusive jungle nomads called the Yuqui. No airstrips were needed. We could be let…
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Its A Wonderful Life???
About two kilometers from the buggy, we were surprised by meeting two Bolivians coming from the other direction. They carried machetes and one of them carried a 16 gauge shotgun that had seen better days. If fired one more time, it looked like the barrel would split wide open, exploding, and maybe killing, or maiming…
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Death Like A Shadow
When trying to befriend savage Indians one can’t help but think about death. I did not fear death so much, but the pain of dying worried me. I did not like pain and the thought of dying stuck full of arrows or hacked up with machetes was unpleasant. However, I would rather cross Jordan shot full…
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