Huayna Potosì

This is what I`ll be doing for the next couple of days. Guess who`s having her 30-year crisis?!
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The death road that I biked down just before getting sick... it was quite a thrill, but also quite the turist trap. On our way back home there was a large truck, similar to the one on the photo that was about to fall off, it had one wheel hanging in the air and it took 4 hours to get it back on the road. The driver was quite pale.

Well, seems that the spanish is affecting my English! I have my strength back (or my forces.... ha ha) at least somewhat... It`s a piller thriller story and I will have a small pharmacy with me on my mountain expedition. Equiped with ice haches and snow boots me, Alok and Manuél will spend the next couple of days climbing to 6088 meters. I`m still a bit nausiated after spending the last 5 days throwing up absolutely everything I`ve been able to eat but I don`t think there will be any worries. I will chew plenty of cocaleaves so I won`t get the nasty altitude sickness. And once again. Coca leaves are NOT a drug. It`s a herb... as long as it`s not chemically processed.

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Other than that I`ve managed to stay away from the caraokee bars. But yesterday (after the doctor`s office) we went to the circus. It was a strange ordeal. No animals, thank god, but a bunch of youngsters bending, hopping and doing I-don`t-know-what crazy stunts. But the last 30 minutes was a laim reenactment of Star Wars a là Ed Wood.

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Oh, my travelling buddies at the moment are Alok, from Inidia, and Manuél from France. Earlier we had the company of Shu (China/Canada) and Bev (Jersey... an island outside of France that is but isn`t part of England or something like that). We were all travelling alone and ended up on La isla de Sol at the same time. We are very compatible travelpartners, strangely enough. Every one gets a long with everyone and we even have quite the same ideas about what it is we want to do every day. Well, it helps that "let`s go for a coffee" always is an appreciated sugestion. Today we cruized some strange desert with rockformations that reminded Gus Van Sant`s "Gerry" and I didn`t like it at all when Alok claims (always with the same certainty) that the trail definately must be to be found just around the next bend. I`m not trying to say that he`s to be blamed for all the times we`ve gotten lost the last 2 weeks... but it sure hasn`t helped! Good thing that he`s always equiped with flashlights and other survival gear and I`m always carrying a crazy amount of food and clothes... (is anybody surprised). Funny how fast one feels like a family with people you`ve just met... and somehow I always get the "mommy" label. What`s even more surprising is that I like it (I guess it`s part of my 30-year crisis). But it was nice travelling Natalia, she was the one keeping track of me.