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a small package from Libya that contained some newly found artifacts.
It was very kind of them.

Jean arrived in Tripoli with Honey and Stan. The next afternoon
the Amoseas people arranged for an American employee (an archeolo-
gist) to drive us to Sabratha. This had been a Roman city when Rome
controlled Libya and Libya provided wheat, citrus and dates to Rome.
The ruins had recently been uncovered from the sand that had inundated
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the ruined buildings.

This American archeologist was a very nice fellow who was
well informed about ancient Libya. The next day he drove about 50
miles east along the coast to the ruins of a much larger area called Lep-
tus Magna. The trip was a bit hazardous because the asphalted road was
a narrow, two-way strip whereas huge trucks would come down the road
taking 1½ lanes of a two-lane road. The answer to the driving problem
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go by. Leptus Magna must have been a huge center. It too had been re-
cently uncovered from the sand. All that had been wood was now gone,
but they had built many things of stone, which remained. We found a
track where athletic events had been held and even lavatories where the
seats had been carved from stone. There was a wonderful forum in an
amphitheater. As you sat on the stone seats, you could still see the stone
busts that had been carved at the base of the theater stage. There were
several stone arches in the back of the theater with the blue Mediterra-
nean just beyond. The amphitheater was amazingly like those we build
today.
The next day, in visiting the schools that had been set up for chil-
dren of American oil company employees in Libya, I met Sam Whipple,
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there. We were courteous to one another.
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Beirut, Lebanon. We stayed at the Phoenicia Hotel. It was a lovely
place. The doorman was a Sikh at least seven feet tall, counting his
turban. Interestingly, the hotel swimming pool was on the roof! It was

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