Bolivia (part 2)

April 6, 2015

Part 2: The Journey

You didn't think it would be that easy to get back to La Paz, did you? Now it is election day and it is illegal to be on the roads AT ALL. Despite that, our trusty driver came from wherever he had been to pick us back up. 

The first part of the car ride was through a mountainous, and let's be honest, sketchy but again beautiful road. I think we took that route to avoid traffic stops and police. It had its own challenges...

This is fine. Everything's fine...at one point we stopped, our driver and guy hopped out and grabbed the tools they had in the car for just this type of occasion, and widened the road a little bit.
They asked us to get out of the car while they drove over the newly widened part.


And we continued on our journey.
When we got closer to the city, our driver grew increasingly nervous about being on the road. There was NOBODY on the roads. At one point we had to stop at a police checkpoint. They asked what we were doing and our friend, who was feeling marginally better, did an excellent job of acting really, REALLY sick. They laughed at the gringas and let us pass.

As we got into the city our driver finally pulled over and pointed us down a street to a hotel. He said he couldn't risk driving any further. I can't remember if he called ahead or we just walked in but somehow we had a room. It was really late at this point; it had taken several hours to get back to La Paz. We happily collapsed in our beds!


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