Joe was an Environmental Sanitation PCV in Chore, Paraguay from 1980 to 1982, served as a Health Volunteer Coordinator from 1982 to 1983, and worked as the Environmental Sanitation technical trainer for CHP International in Villeta and Guarambare from 1983 to 1985. He became quite fluent in Guarani, developed an appreciation for mandi’o cooked just right, and drank a tremendous amount of terere. With others, he also spent countless hours discussing Paraguay and Paraguayism, often puzzled and always enchanted.