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THE MAN ON THE WHITE HORSE
The day began at 4:00 a.m. Our flight from Scottsbluff to Denver was on a small 10 passenger plane. Our luggage was so bulky that I had to sit with some of it on my lap, and it was a relief to get on a larger plane to Miami.
From Miami to Bogata [sic] was not much better than the flight from Scottsbluff. The luggage was all checked in, but our seat assignment placed us beside a man that weighed at least 250 pounds, he spilled over into one of the seats that we had been assigned. Augustine Sanchez, a congenial, talkative man who spoke good English.
Augustin couldn't do enough for us, he got us thru customs in a hurry, he seemed to know every officer in the terminal. He insisted that we go to his home and meet his family, the result was that we were late getting to our hotel, and we lost our reservation, and we had to sleep on cots in the office.
We wanted to do a little sight seeing before we went to the assignment in Cali, so we left some of the luggage in Bogata and made a trip to Quito, Ecuador. Quito is on the equator so we had our pictures taken, holding hands, Verna standing in the southern hemisphere and I, standing in the northern hemisphere.
We had reservations to Machu Picchu, but Verna became ill with an amoeba bug and was not able to make the trip, so she spent the next three days in bed in Cuzco, while I made the trip to Machu Picchu.
Verna was very ill when we returned to Bogota [sic]. We located a doctor at once but he didn't do her much good. I wanted to call the client in Cali, and cancel our appointment, but it was easier to fly the 180 miles to Cali than it was to get back to the U.S. The IESC office in Bogota [sic] called the client in Cali and informed him that we would try to complete the assignment.
When we reached Cali, we were met by our client Senor Humberto Tenoria, and his wife Lucia. Senor Humberto was a graduate Engineer from Texas A & M, and spoke very good English, and we were welcomed as if we were long lost friends.
Humberto ask permission to take Verna to his doctor, who was a specialist in tropical diseases, so Lucia took her directly to the hospital in her car. The Doctor ran a few tests and in three days she was out of the hospital, weak and thin, but on the road to recovery.
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