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3 March '86

3 March 1986 Monday

Up at 4:30 AM to leave house by 5:00 to catch 8:00 AM flight Rio → Brasilia. We are supposed to meet Dionisio somewhere on a street corner on the way & take him to airport. 

As we're driving the carburetor starts giving out and Jim is constantly trying to accelerate at a rate that will keep the car moving. 

At one point it looks like he's cleaned it out (whatever is plugging it) & the Kombi seems to run fine. His hands are clenched! The car starts giving out again and just gets worse & worse. 

About 7 AM we pull over at one of the police little stations & Jim talks [strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] about how & whether we could get a bus to Rio to get to the Airport. 

It's pretty clear that we won't make the plane. 

We're about 26 km from Rio.