John Kitsco

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As winter turned to spring I drove my wife's little car to the service station, cutting through the shopping mall. Surprise, I see a friend crossing who
I worked with in the trucking business a few years ago. My friend looked good, was driving a fairly new truck and heading to work up north...

It was not like this back in 1999 for my friend. He was one of eight oil workers taken hostage in Equador by fifteen armed guerillas. His group was doing repairs on a United Pipeline System - when they were suddenly taken hostage.

And 100 days later they emerged from the jungle,
somewhat thinner, but alive...and having survived this ordeal...my friend shall have a story to tell his
grandchildren some day.

For those interested, if you look, you can still likely find the paperback called, 100 days in the Jungle...