Once again, we are setting off! It's amazing how, after over a week of resting without touching the bikes, the prospect of setting out again feels like we're starting completely anew. Which seems to be a pattern for us... Hopefully this time we'll be hitting the road for long enough to achieve the long-awaited "groove" that we have yet to find with all the bumps we've been hitting. This time, we'll be taking it easy, going at the pace our bodies need without and time or food constraints pushing us over the limit. And hopefully we won't lose anything either!
(One from the last stage)
We are immensely grateful to the family that has hosted us this whole time in Oruro. Without their generosity, it would have been very hard to take all this rest and allow our bodies to recover. We spent the majority of our waking hours in bed, but did manage to get out and see some of the dancing of Carnaval and get trapped as innocent bystanders in the giant spray foam wars that raged in the streets. We also made sure to get out for our daily dose of ice cream, the staple of our current weight gain program! We're thinking that we'll have to up the ration now that we'll be burning calories, not just consuming them.
The plan for the immediate future is to head to Cochabamba by way of Torotoro, a town and national park to the south of the city. This will be the last time we pass through Cochabamba, so we'll be saying goodbye to friends, finalizing the publication prep for Lucy's children's book, and savoring the familiarity of the place, which we will be exchanging for the new and unknown when we leave! We hope to eat lots more tasty fruit on this leg of the journey, as we are quite sick of eating crackers 24/7.
With that, we're heading out, hoping that we will have only good news to report in the next installment!
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