The Kindness of Strangers, or !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Señor Bode dropped a bomb this morning: he's going to drive Katie, his girlfriend, and I around Bolivia for the next week in his Land Cruiser. Tomorrow, we head for Sucre, then Potosí, then Tupiza in the Deep Southwest, then Uyuni, then back to Potosí on the most beautiful dirt road in the country, and at some point I will make sense of all these place names for you. I'd write about what I did today, but the shadow of this news obscures such piddling details.