This is just a quick note to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We made it to Salta, Argentina in time to celebrate Christmas with Ramon and his family at their casa de cicistas. We will write more about our ride to Salta and time here later, but wanted to give you a Christmas [...]
Filed under: Bolivia on December 28th, 2007 | No Comments »
Potosi, the world’s highest city (of its size-100,000) at 12907 ft / 3934 m is famous mostly for mining in the nearby mountain, Cerro Rico. The abundant silver was drained by the Spanish using indigenous people and as well as imported slaves to do the work. Now, people still mine in cooperative groups looking for [...]
Filed under: Bolivia on December 18th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
We got back from our Salar de Uyuni trip a couple of days ago (it was great—more on that later), and we’re hanging out in Uyuni for a few days while Cindy recovers from a small illness. So with nothing else to do but hang out, I decided to write up a review of our [...]
Filed under: Bolivia, General on December 9th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Since we left La Paz, we put in 7 straight days on the bike, which is something I don’t think we’ve done since Baja California…so we are commemorating with a special post describing the journey!
Truth be told, one of the reasons we biked so many days in a row is because there are not a [...]
Filed under: Bolivia on November 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
Cindy and I are real wusses about riding in the rain, so the fact that we are biking through Bolivia at the beginning of the rainy season is a constant worry for us…is it going to be raining when we wake up? Should we wait for the rain to pass? Is the road going to take us under [...]
Filed under: Bolivia on November 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
Leaving the city of Cusco, we had our first taste of the Andean altiplano. It reminded Matt of the time we have spent in the mid-west, particularly the flat farm country of North Dakota. I wasn’t fooled, however, as the Andes were clearly visible rimming the edges of the wide plain, whereas in ND there [...]
Filed under: Bolivia, Peru on November 15th, 2007 | 1 Comment »