The Unexpected

Dear Friends:

Sitting at my internet cafe on the 25 de Mayo just off the Plaza Colon this morning, I turned to glance out the door and saw two lions staring me in the face. Needless to say, I had another look and they were still there, regarding me in a lion-y (leonine, for the snobs among you) kind of way seeming to say "and, so, how did you end up in Bolivia?". So that´s cbba for you, at any minute something unexpected can pop up. Shortly after the lions (with baboon in tow), a large steet protest went by on its way to the main plaza, replete with loud bangs and chants, followed shortly thereafter by a gang of police on motor bikes. Quite a morning on the 25 de Mayo.

And, to my amazement, they´re letting me copy (yes, I said c-o-p-y) the case files. Sure they´re only two, and they´re infinitely confusing, but it´s something. Something nice and unexpected.

Back to Sucre Saturday for a wrap up, clean up, vacate the apartment kind of trip, then back to cbba (hopefully before week´s end) to then head off to La-la Paz for (final) Phase Four.

B.