Summary
Travel at Auyantepui, Venezuela
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Ayauntepui.
Note from the Editor: The Foreign Service usually provides for an interesting and rewarding career, the opportunity to live and work in diverse environments, experience different cultures and ways of life, and meet a variety of fascinating people. On occasion it also provides for all of the above and some real adventure.
Late. Way late. When the telephone rings after 10:30 at night nothing good is apt to follow ... especially on a Friday and especially if you are attached to an American Embassy overseas. The voice on the other end was familiar. It belonged to the American Ambassador to Venezuela, my boss. His distress was genuine. His wife was ill ... very intestinal ... maybe the flu or some bad food. He had an appointment in town the next morning he had to keep. Would Calista and I please take their place and accompany John and Martha on their trip to the interior? Calista whooped when I broke the news. It promised to be...See the full content of this document
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