Coolest 'thing' that happened 'to you' this year

[Son of Liberty]

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ME: Spent a month in Bolivia. La Paz and Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is da shit = tropical savanna, 1.5 million people (biggest city in Bolivia), very modern, very not-western, not on most maps of South America, fucking frontier town a'la Oregon Trail, but on the upper edge of the amazon.

The exchange rate made the entire trip awesome: $1USD=$7 bolivanos.

But the coolest part?

Going to El Alto (THE GHETTO) @ night with some local high school girls a fellow traveler knew via their mom. Fucking trippy. Throngs of people. Che statue 70 ft tall made of scrap metal (pic below, imagine at night). Vodka sold by the 2 gallon jerry can. Poor people galore. Venders selling everything under the sun. Saw some 18YO dudes pull purses they had just snatched outta their belt lines. Police? LOL, no one trusts the police in Bolivia. School buses decked out in Bolivian voodoo shit. $1USD cab rides across the city (and that's the tourist price).

What did I do there? (in El Alto, the 'hood) Buy a hat and eat a meal of fried chicken, fries and Coca Cola. Scared shitless, eatin chicken in the hood of Bolivia - that was the coolest thing I did in 2010.

http://culturetrek.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/che_el-alto.jpg

[nuclearrabbit]

That's fucking amazing.

[BITCH TITZ]

visiting third world countries is tyte

[AoxomoxoA]

Hahaha, you're so funny. As someone who actually was a crackhead in an ecuadorian ghetto, that is not a ghetto my dear sir. That looks like a nice little plaza or mercado. You know you're in the ghetto when you see 10 year olds with guns stuck in their pants. My happenings are way too interesting and complex to pour into a single thread and as it is, I won't. I'll just say this was one fucked up year.

[Nolte]

A night in october that I spent on some primo-ass mushrooms. Not to sound like a druggie/fuck up, but I remember thinking at the time "This is one of the coolest things that's happened this year". Very odd year, twenty ten was.