Going along with this mini-series, I just remembered an article I read a few week ago. The article in La Razon explained how recently the city of La Paz installed five stop lights around town. They are planning to add several more around the city, and this article was looking at whether or not the working lights were actually doing their job. The article found that the lights were working fine, but nobody stopped at them! They would just honk to warn anybody and go on through. In related news, Oruro has lights, but shuts them completely off on Sundays and Uyuni has one stop sign and it's not even at an intersection!
Here are a few signs that highlight the spelling problems of Bolivian signs. Now, I know that there first language obviously isn't English, but there is not really a real reason to have them in English anyways and there are so many tourists that one could simply ask one to read the sign before you have it made.
Dumb?
I guess this typo does save them from copyright infringment, which is pretty rediculous here. The Simpsons are spokesmen for a lot here.
I also saw a sign here in Oruro that said 'Bolivian handigrafts,' that sounds to me like artisinal skin grafts.
Cheers, Andrew
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I don't know how anything gets done in that country. It seems like if you want to go somewhere, you need to set aside an entire day to wait for the bus or train to show up for it's scheduled trip. When your bus finally gets there( if the drivers aren't on strike) you have to wait for low tide. You are a far more patient man than I am. Good luck with your interviewing. You might want to start waiting for next weeks bus now.
Pete, you have no idea! Sometimes it really tries my patience, but I'm just glad I'm not in Bolivia for a week or something like most tourists and trying to see everything. Everything has to go right to get to the destination and that usually doesn't happen. In other news, I'm probably traveling tomorrow!
But there's a bright side to any story. If I sleep in the train station or in a bus, I get free lodging for a night. Even if it's without bathroom or food or blanket or privacy or peace of mind.
Thanks for posting, Andy
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