Tuesday, September 04, 2007

At the waterfalls

So I just need to reiterate how the well rodeo came off. We basically travelled to Bolivia for this and knew no one there. The Peace Core people there took us in and showed us a good time. They are a pretty diverse group of poeple from all over the states. I talked to a coulpe of them who had basically just arrived there seemed wide eyed about their whole commitment and also their spanish wasnt fluent yet. The full commitment is like 27 months long and they live in small towns working on their water supplies or teaching/counseling. But the ones who were just wrapping up their 2 years were mostly eager to stay around longer or at least slowly travel home. They are a pretty impressive group of people, even if some of them were a little strange. The people basically treated the girl whose town we were in like an American hero coming to help them, which I guess she is. Also I have yet to be pointed out as being from the US. On any locals first guess I have gotten France, Germany, UK and Australia. There are really not many from the states down here. I have only met 2 others travelling so far, but anyway, back to the trip.

So after about a 30 hr bus trip we make it to the Brazil/Argentine coast. The bus was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. I basically sat on a Lazy boy recliner and watched a couple movies, read, slept and listened to tunes. We are about to head out and tour Iguazu Falls . We will spend a 2 days here and head back to Buenos Aires were I will split ways with Joe. Here is a quick video at the rodeo in Bolivia. It takes a long time to upload this stuff so I cant put more up.


Hopefully this link to some of Joes pic work too.