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Published: December 12th 2007
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the ladies of bolivia okay ya´ll i´m going to be totally honest with myself and all my lovely readers... i am sooo ready to get back to peru and OUT of bolivia! i wish i could only report the frills, oohs and ahhs but hey lets be honest, traveling isn´t always a hot, milky sweet cup of tea.
let me emphasis. as soon as we crossed the boarder to copacabana i got the ¨belly ache¨ and our two days in the beautiful lake town was comprised of saltines, chamomile tea and cheesy dubbed american films. we hopped the bus for la paz. the crazy alpine brick jungle, props to the juice bars but... with in the first two hours of being dumped into al centro, a rigged atm ate my debit card, within the next 24 hours my bank account was drained of all its funds. but the catch is, i talked to the bank and they said they would retreive my card the next day and keep it in their office until we returned from our stint in the pampas (jungle like savannah paradise) that we had just booked for the next day. yeah, i was upset but actually trusted that when we got
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4X4 to pampas back to la paz in four days i could go to the office and get my card (and i had my suga´daddy backing me up!). so off to rurrenbarque, tropical bolivian paradise. we frolicked around the pampas for three days and saw amazing things. i will post pics soon. we returned on wednesday and went directly to amazonas to book our flight back to la paz (it was suppose to be ¨no problem¨). well the nearest flight wasn´t until saturday and the weather was so bad that they canceled a couple of days already. wasn´t looking good. rurrenbarque is in the middle of the bolivian jungle. if there is a pea sized cloud in the sky they don´t fly, if there is too much wind they don´t fly, if someone sneezes in the office they don´t fly. after our saturday flight was bumbed to the last flight on sunday, of which maybe only two would be able to go. i got antsy, i got fiery. i wanted out of paradise. long story short, we filled a toyota stationwagon and headed down the jagged, bumby, muddy and twisty road towards la paz for the ¨7¨hour drive. yeah right it was 12
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going to camp. day one. hours amigos!!! my ass hurt so bad. and the cherry is that we were finally outside of our blessed hostal and the jackass driver demanded 50 more bolivianos! for what! well he saw me receive a 100 from one of the passengers as we departed and i think that got his little slimy brain thinking. but the woman from our hostal mediated, my spanish goes to pot when i´m frustrated. i gave him all our coins and he finally f´d off all puppy eyed and red faced. grrrr........... that was pretty much the last straw for me. we had tenitive plans to squeeze one more bolivian adventure before we head north, but we both are ready to get out of here. so with the atm thing. we went to the bank today and they assured me that is a very common scam. a person rigs the machine and waits for the next kill. along comes a starry eyed gringa, pops in her card and the machine goes down. the gringa freaks out, ¨fortunately¨there is someone right there with a cell phone calling the ¨bank¨. the ¨bank¨asks the gringa to enter the pin number and push cancel. the person with the
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cuchilo (spider) monkey. (it shat on me!) phone spies on the fingers of gold. the gringa hangs up, goes away, the card pops out and the money is gone.
i am working with osu federal to get all the charges reversed and my money back. it may take awhile, but it will happen. i´ve canceled my account and don´t worry at least this gringa was smart enough not to have all the travel money in one spot. all will be A okay.
well ya´ll, i´m signing out. we are going to arequipa, peru tomorrow morning in hopes to continue our journey with a fresh outlook and new skip in our hop.
take care!
p.s. ok, so this entry was a bit of a rant, but as we all know, pictures are worth a 1000 words and you can all see we are still having an AWESOME time!!!
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Benji
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Mas suerte in el norte
That's sucks you got some cashola stolen! Try not to let it get you too down. And don't be so starry eyed! Gringa ;-) I've heard people talk about Peru the way you talk about Bolivia. So, I don't know. It can happen anywhere. It's just mal suerte.