I am still in La Paz, one of South America's most interesting cities and also the highest capital city in the world at 12,000 feet. That's the same altitude as the highest ski lifts I used in Aspen Colorado! The city sits in what appears to be a big cereal bowl, surrounded by hills on all sides, dotted red by the brick homes that house the poor, and that lead up to the high planes and Bolivia's poorest city, El Alto. Most residents there don't even have running ...

The World's Most Dangerous Road, or as Bolivians more affectionately refer to it, Death Road, was named in 1995 by the Inter-American Development Bank. Their simple measurement? Deaths per mile! This is long before anyone thought tourists would pay to hurl themselves kamikaze style down the twisty, dirt road that has no safety barriers and drop offs in some areas as much as 3000 FEET! When a vehicle or mountain biker find their way off the edge, death is pretty m...