Trying New Foods

Lauren: Can I still drink this?
Beth: Yes.
Lauren: But there is a bug in it.
Beth: Do you know how many bugs you eat a day?
Lauren: Not Bolivian bugs.

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Oh, Details, Details

Lauren: I think we’ve become much better at converting currency.  It’s hard to remember what it’s called but other than that…

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The Ultimate Authority

Beth: Well, Google says…

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Like Kerry and Lauren

Katia (Spain): My brother and I are very different.  He is very quiet and I am an earthquake.

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We´re Not in Argentina Anymore

Beth: It doesn’t look like high quality print, but then again, it is Bolivia.

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Yes, She Is

Lauren: You don’t like catfish? As a Southerner, aren’t you required to like catfish?
Beth: I’m a bad Southerner in many, many ways.

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She´s Talking About English

Lauren: I think I need a grammar refresher course.

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La Paz Bus Tour Highlights

Announcer: You are invited to invest in our country.

Announcer: We imported second use cars and moved the steering wheels to the left with all the rest of the equipment left on the right.  We call these vehicles transformers.

Announcer: There are no poor people in this district.
Beth: I don’t think Evo has reviewed this tape.

Announcer: Now, let me tell you some more things about our dear Bolivia.

Announcer: Let’s tell you some more interesting data.

Announcer: Miners chew coca leaves with a bicarbonate and alcohol to get the strongest effects.

Announcer: The drug traffickers, mainly Colombians…

Announcer: Here in La Paz, all coca production is legal and made for teas and other uses.  In Cochabamba, most is grown for cocain export.  As you can see, everything is well organized here.

Announcer: We suggest you appreciate the big buildings with the wild landscape with an artistic errosion.

Announcer: We are passing through the three wishes tunnel.  Many of you will be be wishing that they will not fall down, but don’t worry, they will not do so.

Announcer: Here there are some very cheap markets, including the black market…

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Travel Fatigue

Lauren: I’m tiring of the international community.

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Economics Lesson

Beth: … And there’s not enough money in the world to keep Africa stable.

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More Travel Fatigue

Beth: I want to be somewhere warm where I can breathe.

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It´s Like Granola… In So Many Ways

Lauren: There are tons of musli people here.
Beth: I know, I’m suprised.  If I were musli, I’d stay in warm places.
Lauren: No, here they have an excuse to put on more musli clothes.

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Did We Mention We´re Not in Argentina Anymore?

Lauren: We’re going to be wishing for the cold in Mexico in July.
Beth: And these buses aren’t going to have air conditioning.
Lauren: Air conditioning? They’ll hardly have seats!

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Practical Parenting

Lauren: What would you do if we had a musli child?
Beth: Send him to military school.

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Regaring Pique a lo Macho

Beth: I love that a “tradition Bolivian meal” includes french fries.

Beth: Oh, this is sausage? I thought it was carrot.

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Also Regarding Pique a lo Macho

Beth: God, I have pico de Mayo breath.

Beth: I keep burping up this Machu Picchu stuff.

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BOLIVIAN CHEERS

To Pamela Tours/Cheers/To La Paz not Being What We THought It Would Be/To Our Summer Vacation/To Bolivianos