Bolivia

Leaving Bolivia and the dirt roads to Cusco, Peru

The night after backtracking to Coroico, La Paz, and then north to Peru, we stayed the night on the border.  This is usually avoided, never a good choice to stay in a border town.  And it turned out to be the case again.  They are dirty, loud, disorganized, etc etc.  After searching and searching and searching on dirt roads in the dark for a place to stay, we finally...

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Potosi Bolivia Mine Experience

Around the Koala hostel in Potosi, Patrick and I met and talked to the owner of the place to see if he would know anybody who could help us build the memorial for Kevin.  The guys we found ourselves by asking in hardware shops really tried to put the screws to us.  Not only did the owner help us, he knew Kevin! What??  For real?  He said he remembered very well. ...