February
3 – Day 34
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REPORT FROM THE WALK:
THE AMAZON
You should see the view. We're coming down the east
side of the Andes, and at points you can see the lush stretches of the Amazon
rain forest going out as far as the horizon.
As we came down below the tree line, we stopped in a
small grove of trees for a rest and lunch. Ernesto asked for our attention for
a minute.
He said these next few days we will be walking through
a very special place. He asked us to try to disturb the vegetation as little as
possible. To walk quietly and alertly. As we kept
going down in altitude, the vegetation kept getting thicker. The trail we were
following was almost invisible at places.
As we descended the Andes, we more or less followed
the
At mid-day we stopped at a place where we can easily
get our water containers refilled from the river. Someone asked Ernesto why he
wanted us to be so quiet here.
He motioned for us all to get closer (he’s so dramatic
sometimes!). In a quiet voice, he said, “We are among some of the most
incredibly sensitive people on the Earth.”
The same guy who asked the first question said, “Ah, I
haven’t seen anybody for the last couple hundred miles. Who are you talking
about?”
Ernesto kind of sighed. “The people who live here have
never heard of telephones, newspapers or the internet. Yet they all knew we
were coming. Do you know how they knew? The birds told them. The wind told
them. The river told them. The vibrations in the ground told them. And in our
case, the sun, moon and stars also told them.”
“For these last couple hundred miles they have been
right here with us.”
Ernesto looked at a bushy plant only about 6 feet away
from us. He looked back at us and motioned with his head for us to look at the
plant. I didn’t see anything unusual. Ernesto said something to the bush. There
was some movement. I heard gasps from some. I still didn’t see what was there. Ernesto
said some thing else to the bush. I couldn’t believe it. A short man slowly
stood up from right behind the bush. We just sat in silence looking at him and
him at us. Slowly he waved one arm. More people appeared from the vegetation
all around us! There must have been at least 30 of them.
Ernesto said, “They would like to see the translucent
pyramid we found at
Daniel was carrying the pyramid. He took it out of the
satchel he was carrying it in, unwrapped it and held
it out in his hands. Now the gasp we heard was from the native people. The one
closest to us started making a low sound and soon the others joined in with
him. I closed my eyes to listen. It was like the sound was inside me too. I
tried to make the same sound. It actually sounded pretty neat and felt good to
do too. After a minute or so the sound faded away and I opened my eyes. They
were all gone.
We sat in silence for a while.
Ernesto said, “We won’t see them again. Yet, they will
be with us until we leave
FROM EARTHWALK COSMIC HEADQUARTERS IN OMAHAHA
The orangutan twins want to remind us that when we
leave South America, we will each get a free lunch point for every recruit we’ve
added to our tribe while in
Fondren Traders Tribe – 6 new
Non-tribals – 4 new
Computer Co-op Strolling Scrollers
– 3 new
Slow Spokes – 3 new
Lundemo Tribe – 2 new
Rainbow Natural Grocery – 2 new
Visionary Activists, The
Wandering Wallies and Canizaro, Cawthon
Davis Team – each 1 new
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