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62 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Jan. 28, 1963 Monday
Place Lima and Callao
Weather Misty, sunny, cool.
This morning I worked at the museum from 9 until 1 -a full day here! After the siesta from 1 to 4, we got some travelers' checks cashed at the cambio, & as Doris wanted to see the fort of Callao where the big ships come in, we got a taxi. It was a 20-minutes' ride -possibly 4 or 5 miles -of quite level, straight road, & then we saw the funnels & smoke. The taxi driver told us all about it in Spanish, & we managed to understand most of it. He drove along the docks, & we saw the "Grips-holms" & a a boat from Göteborg, & others from Venezuela, Mexico, Spain, Russia & other places, including a big freighter from Houston, Tex. The town has some nice houses, & many not so nice, but we passed lots of new housing developments meant to relieve slum conditions. -I got a germ at the market which has made my throat glands swell, & has given me a cough, so I've just been out to buy cough medicine.
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 63
Date Jan. 29, 1963 Tuesday
Place Lima
Weather Misty, sunny, cool.
After I came back from the museum, we had lunch & walked a block to the Rimac river, still very violent even this short way from the ocean, I photographed it & some old buildings on the way. Later we got a taxi to take us "collecting" to Herradura Beach, but there was nothing except a few broken mussel shells. We also stopped where the water runs out of the cliffs & makes a great wet places where maidenhair ferns & mosses grow, & people take cold baths in the drip. Even tho we got the long-armed negro taxi driver to wield a net, we got very few insects. After we got back to the hotel & washed & emptied sand out of our shoes, we visited the silver shop next door to the hotel, & I bought about $12 worth of llama jewelry. We heard hammering in back & asked if we could see the craftsman making the jewelry. There were 3 men & 2 boys, & all were very skilful, specially the one who sawed the intricate parts.
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