The Great Escape from Sucre

I know I haven´t posted anything new in a while, and I have good reason. It is really hard to actually get your stuff together and leave cities in which you are treated like family.

I love my highly dysfunctional Sucre family. I´ll follow with some more specific posts, but Sucre has been a great experience, and an all around fantastic time. Despite early reservations about living and vounteering in Bolivia thanks to some bad experiences in Cochabamba, the last month or so has been what I can only describe as a life-changing experience.

On your right is Asunción, one of my new best friends. She´s 2. She has no parents, and calls me "mommy." The experience at Psichopedagogico has really made my trip "vale la pena" (worthwhile) so far, and sorry about the gratuitous Spanish insertion. Also, Liz and I have been lucky enough to have great friends in Sucre like Joel, Beth, Gustav, Lydia, and so on that have made this city, at times, almost as much of a black hole as Buenos Aires. More on them to follow as well.

Tomorrow, we take off early for Uyuni Via Potosí, to hopefully catch a one day salt flats tour. Then we go back to La Paz, and on to the Amazon Basin. Things should get good, and I plan on getting a new digicam, so stay tuned...

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[Stan-]

Austin, I always knew you were a special guy - now it's confirmed. God bless you and be safe!!
Stanita