This Coke truck got jammed up against the wall outside our neighbors (the sisters) house. They left it overnight in the road, a little off to the side and during the night it slid in the mud. They have spent a couple days trying to dig it out, at some point they will probably have to call someone to pull it out.

The roads aren’t great here, the one pictured here is worse than most. I was told once that only 5% of the roads were paved in Bolivia, I don’t know if it’s true or not but around here the only paved road I know is the one that goes from La Paz to Caranavi, it passes close to Coroico but you have to take cobblestone and dirt roads to get into town. By the way when I say close to Coroico I mean you can see the road from town and make our cars or even people easily, but the drive is about 20 min from when you exit the “freeway” to when you arrive “downtown”. Coming from Coroico to Carmen Pampa or any of the surrounding communities is all dirt or in this season really deep mud.

On a positive note USAID put in a great sidewalk between Coroico and Carmen Pampa, now it’s really a pleasure to walk into town.

LOVE

andy