When I arrive at the terminal, people are calling out Bolivian city names and offering to carry my bag, hoping to sell me a ticket. It’s fierce competition! Any seat that goes unsold is lost revenue. I bought my ticket earlier that afternoon, so after handing over my mochila (backback) to the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bus rides’
August 14th, 2009 - 2:29 am § in Peru
For the Best Fruit, You Gotta Go Out on a Limb
One of the strangest (and sometimes dangerous) things that happens to me when I travel is that, as soon as I overcome the fear of releasing the comforts of home and board the plane, I magically lose all inhibitions. On my first volunteer trip, to East Africa in 2007, I was newly engaged to be [[...]
