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1970 From Peru, into High Peru, that is today's Bolivia.
1970 Instant billionaires.
1971 Still in the Collasuyu of the Tahuantinsuyu of the Incas. 
     And into the Viceroyalty of the
Río de la Plata.
1971 How would the empire of the Incas be today if the Spaniards had not >>>>>destroyed it?

1972 Celebrations in Copacabana; not the one in Rio de Janeiro; its eponym.
1974 Instant 400/oo devaluation.
1974 Six-fold increase in gasoline price (still 2.64 times cheaper than in >>>>>Vespuccia).

1975 Lake Titicaca, more interesting than a sea.
1976 Every-instant tyranny of the town-hall's barking "loud"-speaker.
1977 Women, even more than in Peru, using their bell-skirts for ...

1977 Two weeks, blocked by unrest.
1978 Not enough bank notes for the exploding inflation.
1979 All unrest on hold: now, a week of "Carnival first".
1980 Exotic tribe with sunglasses skywards on heads of coyly nude women.

1984 Summits along La Paz: 6,300 meters, 6,500 meters, 6,750 meters.
1985 Rediscovering the social assault of smoking.
1985 Privacy of coca-leaf chewing.
1985 Rediscovering the assault of manipulative advertising and repetitive >>>>>"news".
1986 Road cut by unmarked water-covered ditch; and we, trapped.

1987 Arbitrary (¿fraudulent?) road-tolls.
1988 More time off: Farewell to Carnival.
1988 Bedlam of five bands on the one plaza.
1989 Tiahuanacu, archaeological site.
1993 Puma Puncu, archaeological site.
1997 As often happens: archaeological stones in colonial buildings.
1999 Unexplainable thieves under our vehicle.
1999 Adventures in food-finding.
2000 Kerosene: hard to get because ... used in cocaine industry.

2002 Museum: from Aymará glyphs to bat blood.
2003 A city hard on brakes and clutch (La Paz).
2004 Good individual in good society, the only winning formula.
2007 Road-tolls with document-stamping every time.
2012 Incas into Amazonia, with 500 rafts and 10,000 men.
2013 And tolls with every time an attempt at substantial fraud.
     Example: 450,000 pesos instead of 210,000 pesos.
     And every time with indomitable and victorious refusal to submit.
2015 For the first time in several months, below 4,000 meters.
2016 Contrary to universal stereotype: 60/oo of Bolivia, no higher than 400
>>>>>(four hundred) meters above sea level.
2017 Samaipata, archaeological site.
2020 A truck stranded four weeks on roadside with broken axle, and with still >>>>>some two or three weeks to wait for part.

2021 General strike Bolivian style: open-ended.
2022 News on Bolivia from Argentina, from Ecuador, but not from Bolivia.

2026 Worrying land-connections between Bolivia and Chile: from dangerous to >>>>>impossible.

2027 Nine days stranded on roadside by the strike; no end in sight.

2027 One way to forget these sufferings:
     reading and suffering Anglo illiteracy and inconceptuality.
2029 Beautifully adopted by nearby family.
2031 Foreign countries sponsor in Bolivia use of pesticides outlawed in those >>>>>countries.

2032 Incallajta, archaeological site.
2032 Rented jeep loses an axle, so bad is the access to Incallajta.
2034 The unimaginable odyssey of collecting a paycheck.
2037 Day 16: strike ended; our neighbors know it not; wee know ... by short >>>>>waves.

2037 Forward: second gear, first gear, second gear ...
2037 After a country without name, a country with two capital cities.
2039 Bolívar: 
     "Easier to beat out the Spaniards than to govern the liberated people".

2040 Those welcoming central plazas.
2042 Most famous Potosí.
2047 Usual concept of Hispanic America, a fallacy.
2048 There should be different "United Nations" for different types of >>>>>countries.

2048 Road so bumpy that gear skips from second into neutral.
2050 Vespuccian bureaucracy mends its Bogotan failure.
2051 Unimaginable confrontation over a telephone call.
2052 Cramped thumb by counting so many millions.
2053 Another whole week (sixth) on hold: Easter.
2053 Classical music, hot potato in Bolivia.
2056 Bribes, necessary even for paying taxes.
2057 Cocaine: 4 tons discovered; its best use, according to the street.
2057 Further incredible but scrupulously true anecdotes.
2057 Radio stations with imaginative names.
2057 No assault by corrosive music.
2059 Observatory of cosmic physics.
2060 Higher up in the Andes: 5,230 meters.
2068 No assault by pornography.
2068 Nothing wasted.
2071 So many deficiencies, even life-threatening, due to lack of brains.
2072 Are so many countries unable to create even their own comic strips?

2073 Fuel pump so supermodern that it cannot be opened; waiting for a new one >>>>>by air; two weeks.

2075 The one stupidity of the Spanish language.
2075 The most de-luxe laundry anywhere.
2076 Preview of Argentine tangos, by radio.
2076 Farewell to Peruvian huaynos, by radio.
2076 Complexities of a really democratic electoral campaign:>twelve candidates >>>>>for president.

2082 We armed ourselves with legal knowledge against future toll swindles.
2083 Oruro: no gasoline; nobody knows why, for how long.
2083 Still trying to guess-choose between quicksands, torrential, unimproved >>>>>fords and water-clogged salt-flats, toward northern Chile.

2085 God-sent adviser: that man whom we helped elsewhere with our tools.

2087 Engine-coolant leak in the middle of a saltpeter desert.
2088 That man becomes our uncle.
2088 Pink flamingoes by the hundreds.
2089 Llamas, alpacas by the hundreds.
2089 The epopee around quicksands, down chaotic, uncertain fords, across >>>>>confusing sand- and salt wastes, toward Chile.

2092 The Chipayas, then and now.
2096 A theory why children in Peru and Bolivia are so tactility-prone.

2097 "Tropics": -6ºC.