We stopped in several places I was immune to on my trip south - this really is gods country up here.
In a bit over four hours we went from 2,000 feet to almost 12,000 feet altitude. Our destination was to be a few hundred km into Bolivia except the Argentinos ran into a bureaucratic nightmare at the customs office - I cleared both aduanas an migraciones in 20 minutes - and then waited 90 minutes for my companions. Its a mystery...
The Bolivian immigration officer tried to change me the reciprocity fee of $135 until I proved I had a 5 year visa - no fees.
As I was waiting for the guys a taxi backed into my bike - bent my luggage rack - we yanked it off and bent it back but the tubing is cracked so we will try for a shop with a welder in the morning.
We found a really nice point3 star hotel and wandered down to the bus station for warm beer and pseudo-pizza for dinner - mm mm yummy!
Nick
via BlackBerry