It’s been a few years since our last full-family Bolivian adventure. But we’re back!
From the beginning, we knew this journey would be quite different from the others we’ve made here. In the years since our last full-family trip …
- We lost our oldest daughter, Jadzia, as well as Yoli’s dad, Don Hector
- We gained new family members, including Melany’s husband, Ariel; and their son, Adrian.
- American Airlines stopped flying to Bolivia
- Santa Cruz has kept modernizing, changing some of the old patterns we were familiar with.
Since our children are now old enough to really remember this trip — and Ludi will be finishing high school before we know it — we thought now was the time to try taking a big adventure outside of Santa Cruz. We had to scale back our early ambitions of touring several cities in the altiplano, and instead we settled on taking a three-day tour in the Salar de Uyuni and its surrounding deserts.
In the past, I have often tried to blog in real time during our trips. That hasn’t really worked out this time. We’ve had little or no internet access for most of the first 10 days of the trip.
Instead, over the next few days I plan to share a retrospective account of our Uyuni trip, and then give a few updates later about our time in Santa Cruz visiting friends and family.
Nice Josh!