After spending a few weeks in Bolivia, there are a few things I´ve guess you could say I´ve ¨learned¨.

Things I´ve taken for granted living in Canada:

• paved roads
• adherance to traffic signs and lights…actually…even just having traffic signs and lights!
• street names found at intersections
• drinkable tap water
• a strong currency (relative to most of South America)
• everyone speaking English
• lack of hippies
• flushing toilet paper down the toilet
• not having to work in a mine
• not having a rainy season
• hot water for showers!
• being able to travel 60kms by car in under 3.5hrs (see first bullet point)
• not being asked to have my fabric hiking boots polished by the shoe shine boys lol…
• internet faster than 28k dialup

Things I´ve started to take for granted traveling in Bolivia:

• $4 per night hostels, $6/hr horse back riding, $10 for 12hr bus rides (and in luxury mind you! Grayhound, you could learn a thing or two…), all inclusive 4 day adventures for $150, hell….dirt cheap everything!!
• lack of laws replaced by common sense.  For example: they leave the door on the public bus open all the time, if you go near it while the bus is moving and fall out, it´s your own fault!
• empanadas…mmmmmmmm
• 1litre yogurts in every store for breakfast!
• if I were wearing dress shoes, then the ability to get them shined at intervals of every 20 feet!
• terrifyingly exhilarating bus rides on flooded mountain switchback roads with shear cliff drop-offs hahah
• crazy markets with a ridiculous abundance of food!

I guess this is the official good-bye to Bolivia, you will be sorely missed, and a giant steak and wine hello to Argentina!