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Negotiations thru the main office seemed never to end. My qualifications didn't seem to suit the client. The client's response didn't answer the questions I was asking. Later both the client and I were to have a good laugh over the reasons for the delay. Senior Humberto Tenerio, the client, owner of the plantation, had a bad experience with personnel who had been working for USAID. He complained that they just rode around in the car and made suggestions, but wouldn't get out in the field.
I had some experience with projects of this type and I was concerned that my contacts would be with some laborer, or gang foreman and I wanted to be certain that the owner would be out in the field with me. I had been in situations on special assignments, where I had only laborers to go to the field with me, I wanted the boss. I didn't want to run a construction gang.
Differences were finally settled and Verna and I, with all our shots and passports and visas, left home the last week of Jan. 1975. We wanted to see more of South America before reporting to our client in Cali, Colombia, and for the next week, we went sight seeing in Equador [sic], Colombia, and Peru.
THE MAN ON THE WHITE HORSE.
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Metzger Memories
