The World's Most Dangerous Road
La Paz, Bolivia Humans always seem to be going some where. It can be in reality or simply in our minds. One way or the other we all seem to be making a journey. Many of my titles I use for my blogs are hyperbole. This is most certainly not one of them. The road has been profiled in numerous adventure shows symbolizing a level of obscene terror. It is the kind of place that people in suburban America will look at, gasp and wonder why in the hell anyone would ever journey down it. At some point during my tenure in Bolivia it was my pleasure or misfortune depending on your perspective to experience it with my father and my neurotic Jew friend Ira. Bolivia is an odd place that often defies explanation. Things that shouldn't be are and things that are shouldn't be. When the Spanish first ventured into the area and encountered the remnants of the Incan and Aymara civilizations on the shores of Lake Titicaca they decided to build a city. It would be a grand city and