THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON
THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1965
A Dream Come True' Is Term Used
By Writer Telling of Panama Trip
PAGE THREE
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(This article was written by Mrs. M. L. Kurtz, who with her
husband and friends, returned in March from a trip to Panama.
They left early in November, traveling via Old Mexico. Using her
typewriter, Mrs. Kurtz paints a vivid picture of the people and
their customs in the countries they visited.)
Mexico, Central America, Panama—another dream come
true! It is fun to dream but still much more fun to pack the
car and take off, headed for parts unknown.
We cast our ballots on Nov. 9 and the following day headed
south. We thought we were leaving early enough to miss the
winter but headed into quite a snowstorm as we neared Jor-
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dan
Valley.
After spending two weeks > excursions, even our wash days
in Arizona, Mr. and Mrs. War ■ in the river with the native wo-
ren Russell of Salem met us ! men added to our enjoyment and
at Phoenix and the four of us I helped us to feel that we were
waited at Guaymas, Mexico, for ■
a week before we were joined by
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Dutton of
Pasco.
The six of us enjoyed a leisure
ly trip south to Mexico City
where we spent several days see
ing some of the many wonderful
sights, sometimes going on guided
tours.
We saw the “Ballet Popular de
r Mexico” presented in the Theater
of the Palace of Fine Arts, the
Cathedral, the ruins in and
around the “Great Aztec Temple”
where the pyramids were so in
teresting. These were the high
lights of our stay in Mexico City
where we also had to obtain our
visas for other countries.
Spend Christmas in Oaxaca
We left Mexico City on Tues
day before Christmas so we could
spend our holiday in Oaxaca, a
much smaller city.
The Christmas Eve parade
which included floats by the vari
ous churches was beautiful to
behold and the many dark-skin
ned children with such beautiful
dresses riding on flower-decked
floats gave us a glimpse into the
native custom of celebrating the
birth of Christ.
Our dinner the next day was
served on the warm patio at our
trailer court with 12 places set
at the table.
In Mexico City we were joined
by another couple from near
Montreal, Canada, and all drove
slowly toward the Guatamalean
border where the Russell couple
left us and headed home.
Travel Coastal Highway
After going through the border
customs on Jan. 5 we took the
coastal highway traveling through
countries rich in coffee, cattle,
cotton and sugar cane with much
citrus fruit in season.
One never tired of traffic along
the highways. Oxen teams, bur
ros, cattle, goats and the many
native people were going to work,
to market or to do the family
wash in the nearby rivers. Stops
in the villages or cities where we
purchased food, our sightseeing
some of them.
The friendliness wherever we
met people was one of the big
gest surprises and joys of our
many weeks in these countries.
Welcome Extended in Panama
At last Panama. After three
days we drove into Panama City
and our goal was reached. The
warm welcome extended to us as
we stopped at the administration
office in the American zone made
us feel like we had almost been
trail blazers.
We were told we were the first
to come over the highway since
the trouble over a year ago, but
we knew there had been others
although they must not have
made their presence known to
them. They planned our stay,
taking us on a guided tour of the
canal and found the only trailer
park in the city for us to stay in.
We spent two days in Colon
where a native Panamanian of
fered us the fenced enclosure of
his Yatch club for our “home”
while there. We also had an en
joyable evening in the home of
a couple formerly from Canada.
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Meet Others From U.S.
We shopped in the custom-free
city and met a few other couples
from the States as well as army
personnel. Our six days in Pana
ma City came to a close and after
enjoying a beautiful folk dancing
event in Old Panama, where
many years ago they used the
square for selling slaves, we start
ed for “home” some 6,000 miles
away.
We spent time sightseeing in
the cities of San Jose, Costa Rica;
Granada and Managua, Nicara
gua; passed through Honduras;
then stopped in El Salvador in
the cities of San Salvador and at
a state park called Los Chollos.
We drove to the top of the old
volcano in San Salvador and
looked down into the half-mile
crater and across the mile dis
tance from rim to rim. Coffee
grows on the slopes all the way
up and wild flowers are cultivat
ed along the slopes of the inside
of the old crater.
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Guatemala City was our next
sightseeing stop and here we met
a young fellow who asked for the
privilege of showing us his city.
Five enjoyable days were spent
with him as our guide.
After seeing some of this lovely
city we drove to Chichicastenango
Physicians and
where some 10,006 Indians meet
to worship at their two churches
Surgeons
—one a pagan and the other a
Catholic. Sundays and Thursdays
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Another day was spent seeing and
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climbing over the ruins at An
tigua.
Dial 372-2241
Hours: 10 to 12 and 2 to 5 p.m.
On Feb. 16 we crossea the bor
Daily Except Saturday and
der into Mexico again and headed
Sunday; Saturday, 10 to 12.
for Veracruz. We had wonderful
summertime weather all winter,
delicious tropical fruits of all
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Daily Except Wednesday, Satur- the evenings or “looked in” our
v day and Sunday; Wednesday campers wherever we stopped.
and Saturday, 9 to 12.
Continue North to Texas
We knew we were leaving
DAVID W. SARAZIN, M. D. these countries, possibly never to
return, and our hearts were a bit
Physician and Surgeon
Hours: 10 to 12 and 2 to 5 p.m. heavy as we continued north to
Brownsville, Texas.
Saturday, 10 to 12 Noon.
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of theirs and that some of their
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J. W. OLSEN. D.M.D.
MR. and MRS. M. L. KURTZ
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