AMAZON RIVER
July 31st 2007 River Trip
From Puerta Masusa, a port near Iquitos, river boats leave each evening down the Amazon River.
I got a motor-taxi to take me to Puerto Masusa . Half way there the ¨taxi¨sputtered its last drop of gas but as if the driver had planned it, the taxi coasted into the one and only gas station between town and port. He got 30 cents worth. My fare was 65 cents.
I was the onl
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