It started out as a suggestion to walk around the area where our hotel was situated. The side street led past a small café which had a few Bolivians sitting drinking coca tea. We sat down and ordered two beers which came to our table in a couple of very tall bottles. As we poured [...]

The air was wet. A warm drizzle settled in on the dense vegetation as our path rounded a long ridge covered in red hanging fuchsia blossoms. My tee shirt stuck to my pack where the sweat and rain dripped down from my neck. The higher we went the more the fog began to roll onto [...]

As our bus approached the main street of La Paz we noticed that the city had grown in population over the last few days. Large crowds of campesinos (rural villagers) had descended on the business area and filled the main square not far from our small hotel. Once we checked in we decided to wander [...]

The bus was crowded with humanity, produce, and animals. The stuffed wreck entered the first village along a narrow cobblestone road. Demonstrators milled around us. Fires smoldered along the highway and we were eventually stopped by a crowd who had blocked the road with burning carpets and tires. I was the lone Norte Americano on [...]

I had traveled to Argentina to climb the highest peak in the western Hemisphere, Aconcagua. The trip was full of detours. Arriving at Puente Del Inca, an outpost on the main road to the border with Chile, I wandered up a hill to a lone structure. The stone walled church had a corrugated tin roof [...]