We fly out of Bolivia and into Los Angeles (via Peru and San Salvador) tomorrow morning. Then the next day we jet over to New Zealand. We’ve got a big day of shopping planned for LA. Although, Alecia’s feeling sick so she probably won’t be up for much walking around.

Bolivia disagrees with me. I’ve been sick since I got here a week or so ago. Yesterday was the first day I actually enjoyed being in Bolivia. Alecia and I biked down Death Road. It took most of the day, and Alecia was nearly hit by a few trucks and busses, but eventually we

We’re nearly out of time in this internet place, so I’m just going to write the juicy details. We found a caiman in a field and I jumped on it. Those things are STRONG!!! But I still have all of my fingers so it was worth it. Plus we have pictures. Two minutes after finding

We decided to stay on the Argentinian side of the Iguaçu falls, because the town is smaller, and pretty much anywhere in South America is cheaper than Brasil. We arrive in the afternoon, and as soon as we stepped off the bus we were accosted by people trying to get us to stay at their

After initially deciding not to bother with Rio, we changed our mind and made a 6 hour bus ride to Rio de Janeiro, arriving after sundown, in a foreign city, with huge backpacks, sticking out like the proverbial sore thumbs, with no idea where to stay. Well, we had the name and address of a

We’ve done a bunch of stuff since last we spoke. We saw the Argentine side of the Iguaçu Falls (where we saw a vicious pack of coati, some rampading agouti, and a loving family of guinea pig things). In about 30 min~utes we’re heading into the Pantanal for about 4 days, for a spot of

Day 2 in Brazil was shaping up to be a big one. Alecia and I got up at 6:30, had breakfast, and headed back to the Butantan institute. We met Rafael at his office and we all headed down to the venom production facilities. Silvia Candoss took us around the snake rooms. I’ve never seen

We arrive in Sao Paulo at about 7 AM. Alecia got the name of a hostel from the airport info booth, and we headed there on a train. That afternoon (Tuesday) we headed out to the University of Sao Paulo to see Carlos Navas. We had planned to tell him that we were going to