Dave Ford Does Earth

Posted by Dave Ford

Me and Benny

Billy and Darkhorse might be in love

Its official, Billy Barnetson and Benny Vears are back. The BV show, as we will begin to refer to Ben is in full form. It looks like I have my travel buddies back again once my Irish contingent abandons me for the south. I am not sure what exactly we are going to do for the next few days. It looks like we might rock out of La Paz by the end of the week. Billy, is thinking about staying as he has multiple love interests. I would like to make it down to Santa Cruz and then up to the conservation park. We will see what happens.

For both Ben and Billy´s traveler profiles go back to the first week in January in the archieves. We all started traveling on the same day on January 9th. As a gentle reminder for the majority of people that will not go back and check, these guys both just got out of the Aussie Navy and were military divers that diffused bombs.

Today is some sort of national holiday in Bolivia. Eva Morales is speaking in town and people are marching everywhere. The people here in general, really seem to like him. This is surprising to me as he is as close to a Socialist as you could imagine. He is of indigenous decent and I think that goes a long way. Bolivia is the third poorest country in the hemisphere next to Haiti and Nicaragua. It seems to be up and coming with the normal separation problems of rich and poor.

———————————————————————————-

Notes:

> At every bank in town their is a policeman with a double pump shot gun guarding the front door. This is an everyday occurance.

> The value of the dollar currently SUCKS.. Kash has left us for South Africa. Im going to miss him, but definitely am not going to miss his constant reminders of how his English Pound Sterlings are worth more than DOUBLE my money.

> I though Argentine drivers were bad. JESUS HELP US ALL IN LA PAZ. These people are crazy. If there are any visible rules, I have not seen any evidence of yet.

> It looks like I am going to have my Irish friends with me until Thursday. We have had a very nice merger of the Aussies and Irish. In fact, Darkhorse Al and Billy are either long lost friends or in love with each other.

To give you an idea of what some of the local women look like in La Paz

Share This