Letter, January 10, 1975

Dear Mom & all,

The pictures, in the order in which I took them are:

1st -	The San Salvador Volcano from a street in the city of San Salvador we call “Gringo Strip” because it attempts to look like a swank U.S. nightclub area.
2nd -	The San Salvador Volcano from where I started my climb.
3rd -	The “inner core” inside the huge crater of the volcano; it took me 2 ½ hours to walk around the outside of the outer cone or El Boquerón (literally the big mouth).
4th -	Part of the outer crater’s inside wall, it was all I could get from that close.
5th -	The city of Santa Tecla, a suburb of San Salvador, from the volcano rim.
6th -	San Salvador and the lake Lagoon Ilopango, also from the volcano rim.
7th -	Some of the stands set up for the Fiesta Patronal in my town, Atiocoyo. The fiesta lasted from the 5th to the 8th of December.
8th -	The office of DGRD {Dirrección General de Riego y Drenaje or the government irrigation agency} in Atiocoyo. I more or less work out of this office, & I live two doors down from it to the left in the picture.
9th -	A hand operated merry-go-round that was set up in Atiocoyo for the fiesta.
10th -	The inside of my room at Atiocoyo.
11th -	Peace Corps Office in San Salvador.
12th -	The central office of Antel, the Salvadoran national telephone company.

They’re sort of a hodge podge, but perhaps will give you some idea of the different facets of the environment I’m living in. There’s quite a contrast between fancy modern buildings like Antel {headquarters} and the straw and adobe huts of most of the people around Atiocoyo. Anyway I hope you enjoy them!

As always,

Dean