The Road of Death

If you have googled Bolivia at all, I am sure you have run across the pictures of “The Road of Death”. Unfortunately, those lovely paved roads and carved out mountainsides are NOT in Bolivia! They are, in fact, in China (Guoliang Tunnel) The Yungas Road is also falsely attributed as the “Stremnaya Road”. Neither of these locations is accurate. So, does Bolivia have a “dangerous road” O YES we do! But it is not...

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I killed a rat in my house

With the rainy season flooding the crawl space beneath the house, we have had trouble with rodents. It has been driving me batty and we finally got to the point where we agreed that we would have to get poison — they kept eating the bait and totally disdaining the traps available in Cochabamba. Then Tuesday night one of our cats killed a big one. We thought that was the end of it. We thought wrong. Late Wednesday night my hubby,...

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