Fast-forward a few days to La Paz, Bolivia... Izzy and I had been planning on doing something called the Choro Trek, a 2 or 3 day hike, depending on how energetic one was, through high altiplano, fording rivers down to jungles and stinging insects... As you know, we had spent a good deal of time walking round getting supplies for our Choro trek - mangoes, peanut butter, bread, honey, dried fruit, tent, tarp, etc... and getting quite excited. To celebrate, we went out to a Lebanese restaurant whereupon I promptly contracted explosive diarrhea. Nix those plans. By morning I had faded to a trickle of water, albeit every 10 minutes, so there was no chance of going anywhere. We had been planning on doing it in 2 days - 8 hours the first and 10 the
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