Day 1

Sat down to blog and post some awesome plane pictures I got flying over La Paz, not to mention of Cassie and Lilly before I left and my house and Tucson because Raquel said it would be nice to show the residents Tucson and somehow deleted them on my memory card before putting them in Picasa which evidently makes them permanently gone. Usually this would just make me mad at myself, but today it made me cry…guess that is just part of travel. At least I didn’t clear the card at the end of my trip. So, no pictures yet, but I will start over. Will try to recreate the picture of Cassie running where I moved the camera and so the ground was blurred, but she was a clear picture when I get home and as for the pictures of snow on the mountains surrounding Tucson, the residents here would never have believed me that it snows in the desert I come from anyway, I mean that is right up there with Kimi claiming that it rains all summer.

To clarify a few things about Bolivia…
Yes, you absolutely can get your Visa at the door $135 and a passport. Bring the other things just in case, but they just made us all fill out some more paperwork and then took our money and passed us through.
It is actually more uncomfortable here than New Jersey in July with the heat and humidity and you don’t have the hope of going to the shore to cool down because they don’t have a shore. That being said, the people are friendly and helpful despite the sweltering heat…its almost as if they don’t notice.
The taxi drivers are crazy and some are cheep and some aren’t, I still don’t understand the difference, but the family I am with is trying to help me.
They deal in boliviano money and US dollars 7:1, your choice and prefer cash over credit cards.

Looking forward to going to the hospital tomorrow…was headed to bed, but now it looks like I am headed to dinner at 9pm…hungry yes, tired yes, 30 hour shift has nothing on this.