Returning to Cochabamba, by way of the Salar

Good news, everyone! We have a new tent! The director of my study abroad program returned to Cochabamba on Monday and brought with her the tent that we had sent to her in the US. We managed to get back to Cochabamba on the same day, spent a morning seam sealing it, and now are ready to take off on the next leg of our Bolivia tour!In the end, we decided to travel from Tupiza to Cochabamba mostly by bus. We did buy a 3x3m tarp in Tupiza, but it was...

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De Tarija a Tupiza

Jueves, 5 de eneroEmpezamos temprano, saliendo de la casa de nuestro anfitrión a las 7:30. Después de desayunar en la calle, salimos de Tarija. Las bicis sentían muy pesadas. Manejamos hacia San Lorenzo. Era interesante porque habíamos hecho la misma ruta algunas días antes con nuestro anfitrión y su club del ciclismo. San Lorenzo con ciclistas tarijeñosEs raro pedalear por la misma ruta sin peso y con peso, y nos hizo dar cuenta de la diferencia...

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Missing: One Beloved Tent

Yep, that's right. Our tent is gone. And when you're living on the road, losing your tent feels like losing your house. In our case, the house was two painstakingly hand-sewn tents made by Adie, the inner for our first bike trip two and a half years ago, the outer specially for this trip. Unfortunately, we have little to no hope of it turning up at this point (the story of the search is below) so we are back in Tupiza, where we have just ordered...

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Tarija to Tupiza

 Tuesday, January 5thWe got an early start, leaving our host's house at 7:30. On the streets of Tarija, our bikes felt ungainly, overloaded. On the way out of town we pulled over at a roadside food cart and ate a big cooked breakfast. We then biked north towards San Lorenzo. This was interesting mostly because we had ridden this section already, on Sunday, with our host and about 10 other Tarijan cyclists. San Lorenzo with Tarijan cyclistsIt's...

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