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It all began with a dream. A dream shared by two children in foreign lands
half-a-world apart.
If it is carried through to its furthermos! goal, a Dallas couple will have
added a new chapter to stranger-than-fiction adventure lore.
For no one has ever done what Mr. and Mrs. George de Mohrenschildt have
set out to do a 7,000-mile, two-year "hike" from North Central Mexico
through Central America to Chile.
Gcorge de Mohrenschildt, an exploration geologist and petroleum engincer,
was stricken with "jungle fever" when he was still a small boy in Baku, Russia,
where he was born of Swedish parents. The idea persisted through his growing-
up years, as his father's affiliation with the Nobel oil interests took the family all
over Europe and while he was "attending school in five languages" - Russian,
German, Polish, French and English.
Since coming to this country 22 years ago, taking his American citizenship
and attaining stature as an expert in his field, Mr. de Mohrenschildt has traveled
the globe. On assignment by the State Department, he was the first U.S.A. oil
specialist to penetrate Yugoslavia after the war. His work has carried him all
over the Mid-East, Europe, South America, Mexico, the Caribbean area, and
to Africa where his extensive studies brought enough jungle experience to
rekindle the boyhood spark.
Jeanne LeGon de Mohrenschildt as a child, too, spent her imaginative
dream-life in an exotic jungleland. Her mother was Russian, her father a French
engineer who was building the Far Eastern railroad when she was born in
China. There she lived until she boarded the last boat to offer escape to America
when war's devastation and turmoil isolated her native land.
In New York, she began a successful career in fashion designing which
eventually brought her to Dallas.
Two years ago she and Mr. de Mohrenschildt were married and one day,
soon after, they discovered they were also wedded to a shared dream. So they
started making plans for that indefinite time when they could take a leave of
absence from their respective work - "and from routine, television and tele-
phones" - to make the dream come true.
Then, rather suddenly, they determined not long ago that the time had
become definite. Vague planning changed into the realistic preparations of
typhoid, yellow fever, tetanus and smallpox inoculations, of visas, of assembling
the lightweight but adequate fishing and hunting gear to augment the meager
food supplies that can be added to the bed rolls, tent and other essentials in
their burro's pack.
A third member of the family.party was readied for the trip. Nero, a
5-month-old Toy Manchester, took his shots without flinching and developed
an appetite for fruits and melons. He accompanied the active sports-loving
de Mohrenschildts on outings where he mastered the art of swimming and of
balancing on the back of an accommodating donkey "stand-in" for the forth.
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