LA PAZ

so, we arrived on a thursday night, met with dudu and went to a wonderful dinner at la fonda. talked at his house for a bit and then went to bed. next morning, we had set up to met alonso to get some papers i need for my mexican citizenship. we also gave him his table and bike t-shirt !  thanks alonso for the support !! we also met with bunnie and andy who gave us all sorts of tips for the mainland trip. great breakfast and then off we went to pichilingue to get our mexican car permitted to go to the mainland.

it was just not to be - we had COPIES of our docs and we needed the originals. since we were not even sure we even had originals, we drove 10 hours back to la bocana. arrived at almost midnight. exhaused. slept.

next morning we found the papers and headed south again - 10 hours. had lunch in loreto this time. auggies for hamburgers and fish tacos....very, very good. we met chris who has a house in loreto then we took off. the trip south is boring boring boring once you leave loreto. so i slept a lot. once we were past constitution and literally on a desolate stretch of highway, Les informs me that he did not top off in loreto and we are low - scary low - in the red low on gas !!!  we did make it to la paz but it was very stressful.  we were on fumes and i was really fuming.  it was about to get dark and we have no cell phone since we want to get the chip on the mainland.  ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what a relief to get gas and then ....

then.....

we head out of the gas station on a one way street !!! and a car is zooming towards us and must be on drugs, cause he does not slow down one bit.  stressful ??????????? nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

then we go do internet. eat dinner. la paz is packed with tourists and i mean packed. we hit a number of hotels and none of them had rooms !!  so we decided to take andy and bunnies advice and hit a motel. they are right. they are spotless and cheap and that is where we slept !!