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July 29, 2005Mendoza: BloodthirstyUpon arriving in regional capital of Salta, our first real stop in Argentina, Brian and I immediately booked bus tickets for the next day all the way down to Mendoza, where we would rendezvous with Olly, Naomi, and Fat Stee....Read this update July 28, 2005Photos: Paragliding, BoliviaI think the reason people might get nervous when their friends whip out a load of baby photos is this: the parents will undoubtedly be able to look at about five thousand at a time and chuckle and smile over...Read this update July 27, 2005Villazon: Off the RailsAt 10 p.m. on the evening of July 26th, a few hours after finishing the tour of the salt flats, Brian and I boarded a train to Villazon, the border town on the Bolivian side of the border with Argentina....Read this update July 26, 2005Uyuni: The Spice of LifeBy the evening of July 23rd, Olly, Brian and I were all qualified pilots, trained in the art of paragliding. I think that is the single most satisfying sentence I have ever written. Unfortunately both Brian and Olly were better...Read this update July 24, 2005Photos: Mines of PotosiThe mines. Some of these will be kind of dark and hard to see, since I didn't always use flash, it just killed the feeling of the place. Of course, you could argue that killing the feeling of that place...Read this update July 23, 2005Sucre: Solo FlightWhen Brian, Olly and I signed up for a paragliding course at Locot’s in Sucre, Bolivia, we were given some idea of what we could expect by Fariq, one of the owners of Locot’s. Lots of practice, for one thing;...Read this update July 20, 2005Sucre: The Learning CurveThe gang split up the night of July 16th, fleeing Potosi in all directions by any means necessary. Naomi and Ben (inappropriately nicknamed Fat Stee) grabbed an overnight bus down south to Tupiza (famous for the final shootout in Butch...Read this update July 19, 2005Photos: SucreNow you're gonna see some dinosaur tracks!! I can imagine that these are not going to be so exciting in pictures and after I've built them up so much, but life is filled with disappointment. Better get used to it....Read this update July 18, 2005Photos: The PampasThe Pampas, you might remember, are the wetlands of Bolivia, near the jungle. Lots happened there, and there were a crapload of pictures that I would love to include, but won't - I'm not sure they would be super interesting,...Read this update July 16, 2005Potosi: The MineThe first topic of conversation that comes up when meeting other travelers is where you’ve been, where you’re going, and what places the other person absolutely can’t miss. I had always thought that phrases like “hot women” and “cheap drugs”...Read this update July 14, 2005Sucre: Leaving a MarkWe left La Paz at 5 p.m. on July 13th for Sucre, taking an overnight bus for what would turn out to be about a fourteen hour journey. The ride was comfortable enough, it was a decent bus; the only...Read this update July 13, 2005Photos: World's Most Dangerous RoadThese photos are of the day we cycled the world's most dangerous road, in Bolivia, from near La Paz down to some other place. It was an absolutely fantastic day, one of the more memorable ones on the trip so...Read this update Photos: La PazThese photos cover all the stuff we did in La Paz over the course of a few days, most of which I am sure you have forgotten about. That's why this website exists- to remind you that Conor is still...Read this update July 12, 2005La Paz: The Boot of JusticeWe were meant to leave Rurrenabaque a few hours after returning from the Pampas, but unsurprisingly the tour operator screwed up our flights so we were stuck in town for a night. It wasn’t the worst thing in the world,...Read this update July 10, 2005The Pampas: WaterworldI was woken up at 8 a.m. on the morning of July 8, unsure where I was. It took me a moment to remember that I was in some room in the back of a tour office in the small...Read this update July 08, 2005Photos: Lake TiticacaMore on Bolivia now - these were from that bike ride we took around Lake Titicaca, which was up at like five million meters, so for the most part we were huffin' and puffin'. But most of the photos are...Read this update Photos: CopacabanaOk, here we are in Bolivia! And I took pictures, but I don't think they're that interesting. But they are of Bolivia, and places called Copacabana and Isla del Sol and Lake Titicaca, and I figure that pretty much automatically...Read this update July 07, 2005Rurrenabaque: Bump in the NightAfter thousands upon thousands of miles spent on buses on this trip, I don’t think I’m overly picky, nor am I likely to kick up a huge fuss over minor inconveniences like no seats (Vietnam) or old women sitting on...Read this update July 06, 2005Coroico: The World's Most Dangerous RoadIt was quarter after seven in the morning on July 6th and Olly, Naomi and I were driving along in a van, ascending our way up and out of the massive bowl that held the sprawling city of La Paz....Read this update July 05, 2005Photos: Bungee Jump, CuscoPhotos like this are bound to be slightly underwhelming - I think to get a proper sense you would have to go ahead and jump off something really high in the air, or maybe strap yourself to the front of...Read this update Photos: Festival of the SunThese are photos from the day of the Inti Raymi festival, the festival of the sun. This was what I hauled ass across Peru to come see, running roadblocks in the middle of the night and driving across fields on...Read this update La Paz: The King of LeavesWith the possible exception of the Witch’s Market, I think it is safe to say that we liked La Paz immediately – it was a city where there was always a great view of the mountains, people were friendly enough...Read this update July 03, 2005Photos: PunoRight, time to catch up on the photos. These are from Puno, Round One, which kind of sucked except for the fact that I was hanging out with my brother Pete and the reed island things were pretty cool. So...Read this update July 02, 2005La Paz: The WitchesI don’t tend to keep track of days of the week while traveling – in fact, nine times out of ten I will have absolutely no clue what day it is, honest to god. It simply holds no significance when...Read this update July 01, 2005Copacabana: At the CopaBolivia is filled with places that sound exotic and invite enthusiasm. Our first stop after we walked across the border from Peru (June 30th) was a mere 8 km away and was called, god bless it, Copacabana. We had the...Read this update |
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