One Way United

So we’re back in Potosi again. The nation wide bus strike makes getting anywhere a real challenge. We were hard pressed to decide to stay in Sucre when this really nice girl at a hotel did her best to give us ideas on how to get out of there (and offers of a reduced rate for a night’s stay if nothing worked). Ideas came in the form of hailing cabs all the way to La Paz (a nine hour journey with four guys, oh cramped) to jumping in the back of a truck and motoring that way. Someone tipped us off that in Potosi there were cabs leaving for La Paz for not too much money so we decided to jump in a cab back up to the highest city in the world. Once there we discovered that the cab thing wasn’t true but there was one bus that would take us to Oruro which is about two hours from La Paz. So we sat in a restaurant for an evening and as amazing luck would have it we were able to find a TV station that had the NBA playoffs showing! This may not seem like a big deal to you but we had been trying ad nauseam to find such a treasure with no luck. We actually found on ESPN the world domino championship (I am not kidding; I didn’t know there even WERE professional domino players). So we sat down to watch the Cavaliers take on the Wizards in a heated match with some very sketchy calls. Unfortunately the Bolivians don’t stay up that late and we had to leave at the beginning of the fourth quarter. Jordan and I frantically tried to find another TV to no avail. Damn shame too as it went into overtime and Lebron won it with the shot of his career to date. The next day we were going to take the bus but Julian got really sick so we had to lounge around for the day. We did run into our friend Mounya who was in the area. I said goodbye for what would probably be the last time as she had to go home a lot sooner than she had planned due to work related reasons. Other than that we went to see The Longest Yard at the theater (which started about twenty minutes earlier than the poste time) and played a lot of cards. This afternoon we will head to Oruro, where we hadn’t actually planned to go but when you’re traveling you have to be flexible. Hopefully we can make it to La Paz very soon (or at least to a TV). Love to all.

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