The List

Things I can’t believe I saw while in La Paz:
• 3 year old girl poppin’ a squat in the middle of the side walk peeing down the hill
• Dogs running through the out door markets in packs, past the raw meats
• Raw meats in the outdoor markets
• A beggar with so much coca leaf in her mouth and teeth that she could barely ask for money
• A shirt that said, Coca’s not a drug (then why can’t I bring it home to the US with me!)
• 10 yr olds bagging my food at the grocery store in the middle of the week when they should be in school. (Children working all over the city for that matter)
• Homeless guy crazily untying garbage bags searching for food and drink and laughing
• (Doug saw) 2 homeless people being ‘friendly’ with each other on the sidewalk. Eewww!
• Beautiful, skinny, hungry dogs 
• 45 year old women who seriously looked older than 80.
• Babies wrapped in fleece blankets and sweaters on a 65 degree day, sweating nonetheless. While I walk in my T-shirt and no jacket.
• Numerous women pick my child up to goo-goo over her, without even acknowledging me.
• Beggars accepting money without saying thank you. (apparently it’s not normal in their culture)
• A man peeing against the wall while guards to the air force base watch from their above post. Holy moly, Lol
• Indigenous women asking for money if you take their picture. They believe you take their sole with the picture. Yet, they’ll sell it daily for 1boliviano. Hmm.
• Buses, motorcycles, Cars driving at night without any headlights on. On purpose. Hello!?Danger!
• New floors of buildings being raised with tree branches instead of 2x4’s. I was just waiting for one to collapse. It just didn’t look stable at all.