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Anne Johnson Knutson
Anne went with her parents, 2 brothers and sister to Bolivia, South America in 1959. They flew from Miami to Nassau where they took a British ship, the Reina Del Mar, to Antofagasta, Chile, with st...view moreAnne went with her parents, 2 brothers and sister to Bolivia, South America in 1959. They flew from Miami to Nassau where they took a British ship, the Reina Del Mar, to Antofagasta, Chile, with stops in Havana and Kingston, through the Panama Canal, then on down the South American coast. In Antofagasta, they boarded a train to go over the Andes Mountains to Cochabamba.
While Anne's parents worked with an Indian tribe, the naked, bows and arrow kind, Anne and her siblings attended Tambo, an American boarding school in the Andes.
During summer vacations, they flew to a pampa airstrip along a tributary of the Amazon River, where they lived in a real, 2-story, pioneer-type log cabin, mudded in with red river clay. Water was hauled from the river, and there were the traditional outhouses. The boys hunted and fished while the girls read, played games, helped their Mom, and even though they were without candy bars, they made a lot of fudge. The children all spent hours every morning and afternoon cooling off, swimming in the river, along with pirana, alligators, electric eels and sting rays. They just splatted the river with a canoe paddle before jumping in. The nearest other people were about 1 hours flight away.
Anne's Mom cooked meals from what they grew, what her Dad and brothers hunted, and from canned and dry foods flown in by Cessna every 3 to 5 months.
At school in the Andes, they occupied their time mostly with sports, mountain climbing, swimming, hiking and work detail, along with studies. After college in Tennessee, Anne returned to Tambo for four years, to teach high school English, speech and drama, and directed several high school plays, Pygmalion and Ben Hur.
These recipes are from Anne's Mom's jungle collection.view less