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Adventure in the Bolivian Andes.

In 1978 when I was a missionary in Bolivia I was posted in a city three hours south of La Paz called Oruro. Elections were coming up and one of the Bolivian missionaries had registered to vote in a small mining town called Colquiri. (col KEER ee)

Well somebody had to go with him and his companion didn't want to so the district leaders asked me if I wanted to go and I said hell yes.

The top picture is me on a high point overlooking the city. The middle shot is me with the city in the background and the bottom is a shot of the bus that got us there. It was a two hour trip and I stood hunched over the entire time.

It was well worth it to me though. Colquiri is almost 15,000 above sea level. There were two missionaries posted there and on a good night they could wire their radio antenna to the tin roof of their apartment and listen to the L.A. Dodgers game broadcast out of L.A..

// posted by sinner @ 2:56 PM