Hi! I´m now in La Paz, Bolivia on the second leg of my trip through South America. I´m here with my friend Lauren, whom I met up with in Cusco after we returned from Machu Picchu. Sadly, Allison and Lisa are not with us, because Lisa had her purse stolen almost as soon as we arrived in Cusco and can´t travel until she gets her passport replaced. Everything got taken - passport, wallet, camera, etc. We were sitting at a sidewalk café, and none of us saw the bag get taken. It just sucks that petty thievery like that exists, expecially when it happens to you! It made our one afternoon in Cusco considerably less pleasant than anticipated, because it was spent cancelling credit cards, debit cards, filing police reports, calling embassies, and all the other
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