Arcadio

We were lucky to have with us a wonderful canyon native and mountain guide, called Arcadio, whose experience on the mountains included guiding the archaeological teams searching for the frozen mummies mentioned in the previous blog entry, a fact we discovered when he shyly showed us the article in National Geographic which begins with his name.

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Arcadio was the oldest and the boat was to be his.

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Together we will own a small house, and I will take the children to school, and Pablito will work for Arcadio until one day, he can buy his own boat ….

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Straightening in confusion, she found herself eye to eye with Arcadio.

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Arcadio uses Pablito because he is cheap and does as he says.

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“It looked like a prawn,” said Arcadio with a grimace.

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His hair had fallen over his eyes but he swept it back and joined in readily enough when Arcadio ordered another round.

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And the hell of it was, it fell to the deck and Arcadio stepped on it.

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Arcadio was so broad; his T-shirt had actually split at one seam.

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I rarely read fiction but I was surprised by how I identified with the "mad pursuit" of Jose Arcadio Buendia.

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