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64 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Jan. 30, 1963 Wednesday
Place Lima
Weather Fine, cool, breezy.
I finished work at the museum & left with Dr. Ferreyra at 1. The botanist will pack & mail my seeds to the Plant Quarantine, for which I left 500 sols ($20) with Dr. Tovar. After lunch Doris & I got some money at the cambio to pay our hotel bill, & I took a few pictures in the neighborhood of the hotel. After an early dinner we sat in the park & looked at the cathedral, which is certainly beautiful just at nightfall. Not much to do except to pack for a 630AM taxi to the airport, & on to Colombia! — But I got 6 letters from home to-day! I needed them!!!
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 65
Date Jan. 31, 1963 Thursday
Place Lima, Guayaqiul, Quito and Cali
Weather Cloudy or sunny, cool or warm.
We got the 8AM plane for Cali, Colombia. It was too foggy to see much at the take-off, but in half an hour or so the mist cleared so we saw the immense chain of the Cordillera Blanca which parallels the coast to the north. We could look down on the rocky, arid coast, with a few patches of green along the rivers, & some Indian towns near them. As we neared Guayaqiul the mountains receded & the grew more abundant, while in the river delta the houses were built on stilts to keep out of the floods. We were there only 45 minutes, & then flew on to Quito. When we mounted to 11000ft to get over the ridge, I felt sick symptoms again, & in climbing to 10000ft to get into Valle de Cauca my ears began to hurt, but eating the Pareagra lunch & chewing their quite tough chicken helped me a lot. We got to Cali at 2, & it was very hot on out long ride from the airport. Our hotel overlooks the river & is clean & airy. My ear & jaw hurt for quite a while. Fortunately Doris felt invigorated by the thin air, so I remain the only "casualty".
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