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Beivenidos a Bolivia

Two days ago we arrived by crossing the Bolivian/Peruvian border at Lake Titicaca. A good phrase to sum up this border crossing experience would be “goat rodeo” with multiple police, guards, and army peoples directing us to several buildings where we were lectured on how we didn’t have the proper stamps or paper work and how we couldn’t enter the country wearing baseball caps and how we shouldn’t of elected bush etc… but we made it across (all that good karma paid off) and now we are in Okinawa with beautiful weather, our friends and a whole house worth of stuff to pack, sell and give away.

This is Birdy with all of our luggage, now imagine about a three hundred of these things trying to move around in a space the size of a tennis court. Lots of fun.

This is such an odd chapter in our story. It is a plot twist I always thought might happen since our arrival to this turbulent country but a twist we were not prepared for. We are still planning on what to do with this recently acquired “free time” and some great ideas have taken shape. In no specific order: hike the AT or PCT, travel South America, work on sail boats in the Caribbean, become a pirate in the Caribbean, start that baby thing that most of our friends seem to be doing, stay in Bolivia and finish out our projects. My personal favorite is traveling and making it back to Charlottesville for Christmas. Ho ho ho.

We are still doing the marathon in Buenos Aires on October 12, 2008. Anna is missing two toenails from previous training and we are a bit out of shape but with any luck we will finish the race under eight hours and with all eighteen toenails intact. My dad and brother Pat will be at the race and will undoubtedly take a wonderful picture of Anna and me crawling, walking, and or limping across the finish line

Vamos a ver. Paz y amor por todos, tomas.