University of Alabama students somewhere in the Andes between San Jose and Quepos.
I think the bus driver had to fix something, or possibly wait for the cattle to move out of the road. Those are the Andes mtns in the background. Will work on the color balance as the cyan has obviously cured very strong after 36 years; these are direct positive slides. No wonder why Kodak went bancrupt. Just glad I even have these and can convert from slides to digital. more coming as time allows.
This was one of the few group pix taken and there are some students not in the pic. All these students were doing their own independent studies during the summer and scattered all over Costa Rica. Will try to remember the names... and add names as possible. In 1977 Costa Rica was still pristene Latin America. We went all over Costa Rica without any bad incedent. Glad we got to see this before the drugs and crime got bad. ... and before the Contras in Nicuragua. There are other students not pictured here & will put them in future posts.
L to R: a tico kid sitting, tico in cowboy hat, Al, Alfredo Gutterrez, Becky from Mobile, Jody?, Steve Hough standing behind another Steve w/ beard and camera case, Dr. Selwyn Hollingsworth standing sideways, lady student 1?, lady student 2 ?Jan?, Bill? "Wolf" sitting, ?Louise? behind person on end in jeans.
Not pictured here; Dan Flynn, Toby?law school Toby?, Dr Richard Brough and wife ?Hazel?, Dr Edward Mosely, and there was another senior couple from ?Hattiesburg, Courtney "Coco" Glass was with us a few weeks then went on to Mexico for independent study. Bear w/ me for not remembering a name, this was 1977.
Alfredo Gutterrez was a Guatemalan student at Uof A on the trip doing course work study and was our interpreter many times.... and kept a bunch of gringo students from being out-haggled/ hustled many times. This was taking a sip out of a Havoline oil can of the sugar refinery juice product during processing.
Typical San Jose food vendor cart ... pineapples, probably picked that morning tasted great! And they cost a dime.
Humberto Montealegre - a UofAla alumni had the students to his ranch/ farm/ dairy outside of Cartago for a cookout. and Whit
