The Footloose American: Following The Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America - Plot & Excerpts
Thompson Trail Across South America CHAPTER SIX Notes from Underground If Bolivia were half as bad as it looks on paper, the government would send a crew to all this country’s points of entry to post signs saying, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” —National Observer, April 15, 1962 I From above, which is the only way you can approach it, the city of La Paz looks like a crack opened up in the earth and every building in the world just fell in. It’s a senseless jumble of a metro, skirting the eastern edge of a wide Andean plateau called the Altiplano, filling in a canyon there like a bucket of LEGOs dumped into a shoebox. Arriving in La Paz by bus means descending 1,500 feet from the canyon’s rim, winding downward in a sort of toilet-bowl swirl. Gaze out the window during your descent and the city seems to glisten, with a zillion metal rooftops reflecting the unfiltered sunlight of the high Andes. At 12,000 feet (the surrounding Altiplano is well over 13,000), La Paz is often hailed as the highest capital in the world.
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