Ninas, ninos & Abuelita travel in a pickup bed.

Today was our first day of unpaved roads, that other cyclists warned are terrible in southern Bolivia, and it wasn’t half bad. Half the time the surface was firm enough to cruise at 20 kph, but the other half we alternated between wasboard bumps, loose sand, and avoiding big rocks. A bus got stuck in the loose sand. Passengers got out to help free it; women furiously shoveling sand and men hauling rocks to put under the rear tires. We are staying in a nice tourist hotel that looked like it would cost much more than the $9 room rate. After a long & tiring, hot & dusty day we enjoyed a decent Bolivian wine with dinner.

Llama herds cross the not-half-bad road.

Lunch stop on the bad half of the road.

PushmePullyou, llamas play King-of-the-Hill.

Choqui Morales, El Presidente's cousin, herding llamas on a bicycle.

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