The Other Gringo Has Landed

My brother arrived this morning in La Paz. He's doing very well considering this is the first foreign country besides Canada he's visited. I think he's stepped over the border into Mexico, too, but border towns rarely give the true flavor of a country. Mom and I saw many of the major sights in and around La Paz. On Monday we visited the ruins at Tihuanaco, about 30 miles from La Paz. Tihuanaco was the main city of a civilization that predated the Incas. The site has many impressive carved statues. One of the largest used to stand in a main plaza in La Paz. About 5 years ago they replaced it with a copy and moved the original to a museum in Tihuanaco to better preserve it. The site itelf isn't very big, but they are doing a lot more excavating, and it should be really nice in a few years.

The Submarino was delicious by the way.