| Our latest entry in the 2018 Travel Highlights Competition is from Delores Topliff. Delores is a college teacher, speaker, and freelance writer with over 360 publications besides providing editing and publishing services. Travel is her favorite means of learning. |  |
South American Rescue
Our Jeepney reached the South American river town. After dust settled and people, pigs, and chickens departed, my 14-year-old son and I, here to help schools, looked for our contacts.
No-one.
There’d been some mistake.
A friend had written, “If anything goes wrong, find shopkeeper Antonio Anau.”
My son guarded our luggage while I walked dusty streets asking for Antonio.
Clerks rattled off rapid-fire Spanish. He’d had surgery and was gone.
Dogs bite fearful people. I couldn’t fear.
Finally, through another doorway, I glimpsed a man I’d seen once in the U.S.
In town for other reasons, he “rescued” us.
Our Jeepney reached the South American river town. After dust settled and people, pigs, and chickens departed, my 14-year-old son and I, here to help schools, looked for our contacts.
No-one.
There’d been some mistake.
A friend had written, “If anything goes wrong, find shopkeeper Antonio Anau.”
My son guarded our luggage while I walked dusty streets asking for Antonio.
Clerks rattled off rapid-fire Spanish. He’d had surgery and was gone.
Dogs bite fearful people. I couldn’t fear.
Finally, through another doorway, I glimpsed a man I’d seen once in the U.S.
In town for other reasons, he “rescued” us.
