Ireneo's wife does the laundry by the stream on the side of the road, January 2011

My father died 30 years ago 20 miles away from there, at the edge of the jungle. I took Lucas to the little cross on the road that commemorated my father's death right by the site of his foreman's house. The house of the foreman, Mr. Venancio, wasn't there anymore. But we found him. He now lives, where 30 years ago, except for one house, civilization ended. Now, over the hill, and across the stream there were about twenty homes. Lucas and I felt as if we were in Africa in the 1800's. It felt like we were approaching the edge of the world. Lucas felt so good, he wanted me to teach him Spanish, and when we were done with Spanish, Guarani. Guarani is the language that remains from the Native Americans; the peasants adopted it as their language. This makes Paraguay a bilingual country.                        

                                              

My father on a cart pulled by oxen circa 1950 in Paraguay

Back to the USA.