Hello and good day family and friends. Anna and I just got back from Cochabamba last Saturday after a nice long bus ride, well the views were nice, the bus and its contents had a curious odor and the closer we got to Santa Cruz the hotter it got on the bus, needless to say the smells got more…….intense. Ahhh to travel by bus. Our time in Cochabamba was well spent, we received flu vaccines (in which both of us got the flu for a day and a half), we toured a composting operation in the beautiful city of Tiquipaya, I scoured the library for water testing literature and we got to hang out with one of our great buds from our PC group George McGarnikle. Over all a great trip and the weather in Cochabamba is fantastic, especially compared with the weather of Okinawa.
Anna and I decided/discovered that Okinawa is hot and humid for seven months out of the year and to be honest, that is just uncalled for. Next week Anna’s mama and sister are coming from Charlottesville to visit us and we are exited to show them our host country. It looks as though we’ll be heading up to Isla de Sol which is on Lago Titicaca, (the word Titicaca is combination of Quechaua and Aymara (a language spoken before and after the Incans) for ‘the scared rock of the puma’, and not what an eight grader would think, shame on you). We should get some excellent pictures from the world’s highest largest navigable body of water and pre-Incan (Tihaunacu) archaeological sites and all of this enjoyed at roughly at twelve thousand feet.
This next blog is about recent political happenings, insight and information which could change in the two seconds before I publish this blog.
Sorry no pictures this time, we´ll make up for it with the trip to La Paz. Tom.
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