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68 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Feb. 3, 1963 Sunday
Place Cali, Buga & Valle del Cauca
Weather Fine, cool, breezy, foggy
At 8 Drs. Bart & Marinkelle called for us in Dr. R's car to take us on a long collecting trip to the north of Cali. First we stopped at some shallow lakes on a farm, after asking permission to go there. There were some lovely scarlet birds in the pasture, & the mountains were reflected in the perfectly still lake. Large "long-horn" cattle came by with a real cowboy herding them. Later we got some peppers, pomegranates, sorghum & other seeds from the farmer's garden, as well as seeds of wonderful rose-&-orange bougainirllea. We passed talc deposits, & red rock colored by iron oxide. We finally came to the Cauca river, & saw ducks on it. White birds originally from Africa stayed among the cattle eating the ticks. At noon we came to Buga, & they showed us an old church dated 1775. They treated us to lunch at a swanky hotel, swimming pool, inlaidwooden dance floor & everything. We came back by a different road thru superb mountains again, & saw new colonies on former Indian lands raising jute, maize, bananas & pineapple. Back to the hotel at 5.
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 69
Date Feb. 4, 1963 Monday
Place Cali
Weather Cloudy, mild.
Nine days of constant coughing since I visited that Indian market in Lima, & no sign of a let-up! This is one of the experiences in travelling that is not mentioned in any guide book! -At 5 this evening I had to give a half-hour talk to the faculty seminar of 7 people), & they all said it was interesting. Afterwards one of the Rockefeller people, Liz Wenninger, invited us to her lovely apartment for orange juice & banana cake. Her view of the city is superb, & I photographed it. Then Bill Thornton came to our hotel to introduce us to Dr. Carlos Lehman, who is certainly charming. I asked "the boys" to stay for dinner, which they did, & Dr. L located a beetle collection at Palmira for Doris to see. He also got me 2 tablets for my cough -"Desentriol" -I surely hope they work!
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