This is the best way to keep up with what the Johnsons are doing in Cochabamba, Bolivia! To the right you will find links to our key information, our prayer letters, and the odds and ends of our Great Adventure! Please check back often, and feel free to subscribe to our RSS feed!

ATMs We are blessed to have many ATMs around the city. God has given us a great taxi driver (don Edwin) who has lived and grown up in Cochabamba all his life, so he knows the ATMs that work and those that don’t. So we have never had a problem with getting funds from our account. Monetary unit… In Bolivia we use the monetary unit called Bolivianos. A Boliviano is about 1/8 of a dollar (8Bs = $1USD; varies daily), or about 12.5¢. To...

Shopping outdoors… Much of the shopping that we do takes place outdoors at “ferias” (markets) or small shops stuck in the outsides of buildings along sidewalks. Sometimes the owner lives on the other side (the “back”) of the store. Other times you’re shopping along a sidewalk that would be a mall if there were not a street separating you from the other side and it had a roof on top! Ferias… Ferias in...