Plus dear Vee - in the future others will enjoy your adventure thanks to your hard work. > Dear Folks, > > Late tonight I waded through the last of my tape recordings that I made > during my adventure in Suriname. Because I was pretty much exhausted > listening to the endless drums, singing and sounds of dancing, I was > grateful when the last tape clicked off. It was the end to an endless > story. > > But now I have to sigh. Frankly, I didn't want it all to end. In spirit > I'm still there and want to stay there. But now that 33 years have passed, > I'll have to keep those memories alive in my transcriptions of the tapes and > what I remember that weren't recorded on tape. > > I feel that I did a pretty darned good job in meticulously transcribing just > about everything I had recorded but now I have the job of putting everything > in chronological order. From the first day that I had walked along the > streets of Paramaribo (the capitol of Suriname) recording all the sounds of > the different languages spoken in passing, to the glorious celebration of > Freedom Day (emancipation of the slaves), and then on into the jungle up the > Marowjine River. > > I have a long haul ahead of me to put it all in much abbreviated order, but > I know that in the end, I'll be able to read it all over again and relive > those glorious days. > vee > >