In 1971, during a seven-month exploration of Latin America, this sandy
path leading away from Encarnación, Paraguay, offered me this scene of a time
long gone in the rest of the world. Armed with a stick long enough to whip his first two oxen, this farmer
was taking his harvest to market.
I had recently traveled down from Bolivia’ high and icy Altiplano desert
and could not have been more grateful for the heat and surrounding greenness. Also,
Paraguay in those days added the attraction of a travel machine. Walking its
dusty paths plied by people on horses and oxcarts threw me back 100 years.
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