If There's a Will There's a Way

Brittany talks about how anything is possible in Bolivia, standing up in buses for long periods of time or even riding on the roofs of vans. 


I think that this should be the motto for Bolivia "If there's a will there's a way" because it really is true. We say it back home but because of so many rules and regulations sometimes there really isn't a way. This weekend a couple of us headed off to Toro Toro to see the dinosaur footprints and crawl through enormous caves but since you can't book a bus ticket in advance you have to just show up and hope you get a seat. After asking all the Toro Toro bus companies if they had any seats we were with out luck (unless we wanted to sit under the bus with the luggage) and started to think that we had better just turn back and head home. We started to head back after putting our names on a list for a morning bus the next day, a bus driver approached us and asked if we wanted to ride on his bus. We were so excited, we thought all the buses were full so we asked how we could ride on this bus now but not before. The man said we could stand in the aisle way and surely people will get off before Toro Toro. Not thinking we would have to stand for 3 hours before the first group of people got off. It was quite and adventure and a struggle watching everyone look so cozy while sleeping in their seats while I attempted to keep standing. Patients paid off while waiting for the bus that day because there is no way that we could have seen all that we did if we would have taken the saturday bus. Luckily on the way back we had good seats!