On getting to our beds last night I sat down on the bed and thought i had sat on a concrete wall, the beds were horse hair or something similar and were really stiff, we thought it would be grossly uncomfortable but actually it wasn’t too bad.
The next day we are woken by a builder opposite who decided to have his radio on at disco volume so that everybody in the village could benefit from his choice of music. After about 20-30 minutes I can only guess someone else who felt the same way as us must have had a word with him because it went down big time. Too late for us and we might as well get up and get an early start as we need to get to the airport to collect my shock.
Our hosts Delia and Nester are fantastic and give us some coffe and bread and cheese before we extricate the bikes from their secure parking area.
We are then on our way and have to cross many rivers where the water is cascading down the mountain and needs to croos the road to continue on its way. It is another 15 miles before we reach our original destination town. A horrible cobbled road leads us out of the town descending steeply, it is horrible because it is very slippery and we have little back brake, we think due to the altitude and I have no rear shock. At the bottom we enquire the correct road, we are now at the bottom of the road of death and my bike will never make it to the top so we take the new road.
A track along the valley and then over a complex double bridge section and we are on the new road. It is paved and then it isn’t and that goes on through its length but in fairness the majority is paved. Back over the mountain and today it is clear, no cloud and we see that we had got to 4071 masl.
Trying to swerve the city in La Paz, purely to miss the traffic, is challenging and we end up in a couple of dead ends and also climb some off of the steepest roads both Martin and I have been on and we were glad we didn’t need to attempt a hill start on then.
We arrived at the airport and the worst news, the plane which is bringing my shock to La Paz has broken down in Miami. Regardless of when it leaves now we are stuck here for the weekend as customs is closed all weekend.
Dejected we head back to La Paz and try to implement plan B. Martin had suggested that if we did have a problem with the shock we could do a trip to Lake Titicaca, this is a 2 day trip and would occupy our weekend and also means that when we finally get mobile again we can scoot straight to Peru and by pass Titicaca. Good plan and we are able to do just that so we are off at 7.45 in the morning.
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