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Suzy Prenger
By Alice Hrnicek
A new year.
Suzy Prenger, coordinator of the UNL Overseas
Opportunity Center and Spanish instructor, is both ex
cited and apprehensive. "
Prenger is spending 1980 in South America, traversing
its climates which fluctuate from the cold of the snow
capped Andes Mountains to the heat of the Amazon River
and surrounding jungle. She must fit all the clothes she
needs into one backpack. , ;
She will climb mountains, run river barges, interpret
Spanish, write travel journals and chat with the natives
all of which she has never done before.
But Prenger is not alone. Accompanying her will be
nine people, all professionals in one or more areas of
traveling. r . . - .
People on the trip consist of the trip director, from
Australia, two Swiss, three ' British, two Canadians,
another Australian and herself.
Prenger has met only one of them, director Al Town
sing. In 10 months to a year, the group hopes to put
together a photographic essay and a documentary film on
overland traveling, she said. The project will not concen
trate on the Latin American culture, but rather on logisti-
cal problems of traveling with private transportation
across the continent, she said.
TOWNS1NG ORIGINALLY came up with the idea
when he was guiding two-to-three month tours in South
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America for an Australian touring agency called Encount
er Overland. .
A friend of Prenger's went on one of his tours and
heard him talk about the idea. The friend told him
Prenger was interested in going, she said. '
Prenger wrote Townsing ands after she persisted, he
came to visit her and decided she would be an asset with
her Spanish-speaking ability and knowledge of foreign
travel. .--...
Each of the people on the tour has been researching a
specific area of the continent in preparation. Prenger is in
' charge of learning about Peru.
"It will be a group teaching projectbut not an aca
demic trip," she said.
The group will meet New Year's Eve in Cartugena,
Columbia, and start the next day in a truck on a circular
route around the continent.
They will pass through the Angel Falls area of Vene
zuela onto the Transamazonian Highway into Brazil where
they wilr see the Yanamamo Indians in the jungle. .
.IN MATO GROSSO they will' be side by side with
Pan tanaal wild life, which the Canadians wish to photo
graph extensively, Prenger said.
In the Paraguayan Chaco region, they will visit a
Mennonite settlement and speak with an expert in Guacho
folklore.
'This area relates so much to Nebraska, with its cow
boys and the plains experience." -
After winding around the southern tip of South
America into the Andean Mountains and Atacama Desert
the group will climb Mt. Aconcagua, the highest mountain
on the continent.
Prenger said she is looking forward most to visiting
Macchupicchu, an old Incajettlement.
The troupe will climb several volcanoes in Ecuador and
go to the Galapagos Islands, after which they will return
to Cartugena.
Preparations for the trip have been extensive, Prenger
said.' '
"The shots and immunizations and equipment we need
are just incredible," she added. Estimated cost for the
year's traveling is $4,500 a person, she said.
She will be keeping a journal and plans to send articles
back to American newspapers, she said. She also will help
write the script for the film.
"I've been concentrating on the experiences of womer
traveling alone (after she traveled by herself in Europe foi.
five months) and on students' traveling. Traveling is one :
or me oesi ways oi learning. . ;
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