Us in Copacabana, Bolivia... That´s the edge of the city with lake Titicaca in the background.
Bus trip from La Paz to Copacabana
Below is me with my Uncle Carlos and Fam. at their house for lunch. (the image with the fountain is their livingroom!)
Ok yall´, since our last encounter our heros finally defeated their arch nemisis... the stomach flu (I was going to describe it another way for John, but I should keep it pg-13 for the youngsters). We hung with some more family on Sunday and Monday afternoon and took off to Copacabana, Bolivia. It´s about a three hour trip to this city that sits on Lake Titicaca (highest navigable lake in the world with the world´s funniest name). Stayed overnight and expected to leave the next morning, but Bolivian business practice is not know for being client friendly and the banks were closed. We didn´t plan very well and didn´t have any cash on us and NO ONE takes credit card. We met a irish couple that had been stuck there since Saturday, awaiting a bank to open! We were able to convince a lady at a tour office to loan us 200 bolivianos with 10% interest to continue onto Puno, Peru or 
else we may have had to stay another night. Once there, we took out $ and payed the bus driver his share and enough to give to the tour lady and caught another bus to Cusco, Peru... home of Machu 
Pichu. By the way... I should mention that while on the bus to Cusco from Puno we got into it with an overberring indian (chola) lady. I don´t want to say much, but i´ll tell you this, I kicked her ass!!! But seriously, it´s funny how pushy this culture is! It breaks our heart to see such poverty and lack of education, but they don´t help the situation with their manerisms and sense of entitlement (not all of them of course... some are great people).
We arrived last night (Tuesday 12-23) and stayed in the first hostel we found. Would have taken pictures but didn´t want to contaminate the camera! Brandy took a cold shower (no hot water) for the second night in a row... i tried this morning, but electricuted myself. The shower head has wires running to it supposedly to heat the water a bit, but instead passed a current onto me. It goes without saying that we found another place to stay this morning. :)
else we may have had to stay another night. Once there, we took out $ and payed the bus driver his share and enough to give to the tour lady and caught another bus to Cusco, Peru... home of Machu 
Pichu. By the way... I should mention that while on the bus to Cusco from Puno we got into it with an overberring indian (chola) lady. I don´t want to say much, but i´ll tell you this, I kicked her ass!!! But seriously, it´s funny how pushy this culture is! It breaks our heart to see such poverty and lack of education, but they don´t help the situation with their manerisms and sense of entitlement (not all of them of course... some are great people).We arrived last night (Tuesday 12-23) and stayed in the first hostel we found. Would have taken pictures but didn´t want to contaminate the camera! Brandy took a cold shower (no hot water) for the second night in a row... i tried this morning, but electricuted myself. The shower head has wires running to it supposedly to heat the water a bit, but instead passed a current onto me. It goes without saying that we found another place to stay this morning. :)
We have spent the day so far checking the area we are in (2 blocks from the main plaza) and writting this blog. The latter takes a long time. :) Being Xmas e
ve, the town is jumping with 
people buying presents, wrapping paper, etc... one interesting thing we saw so far is a bunch of lines with cholas (indiginous people) and their kids awaiting free presents. These lines are each about a block and a half long! Got to go now... have to get into line soon or those damn kids will take all the good toys!
ve, the town is jumping with 
people buying presents, wrapping paper, etc... one interesting thing we saw so far is a bunch of lines with cholas (indiginous people) and their kids awaiting free presents. These lines are each about a block and a half long! Got to go now... have to get into line soon or those damn kids will take all the good toys!
Copacabana, Bolivia.
Some entrance to a museum in Cusco, Peru
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