Going to Santa Cruz tomorrow

We´re going to the Jesuit missions northeast of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It´s supposed to be a pretty awesome trip. We should be going through Concepcion and then east to some other Jesuit missions to the Chiquitano peoples. The Jesuits did a lot of awesome work with the indigenous Chiquitano people... apparently its one of the best historical instances of large-scale evangelization in history. But then the portugese wanted to enslave the natives, so they chased the Jesuits and/or Spanish out... ya pues. I'm kinda jealous of Kinsy and Sophie... they're going up to La Paz on the overnight bus tonight and are going to bike down the "Death Road" ... where 1 in 4 busses falls off a cliff and explodes in a fiery crash. Sweet. Kinsy is also going up to the "Beni" or Beni river area in the NW of Bolivia (Toward Brasil) ... which is where Padre Pancho used to do his missionary work... all up and down the Beni River. Until he got chased into hiding by the Banzer gov't. At least I think it was Banzer... no se. Anyways, she's tryingto get me to go up there with her... which would be sweet... swimming with pink river dolphins, spearfishing, sleeping in hammocks in palm-leaf roof huts. gnarly. But I might be going to La Paz already that wknd? no se... vamos a ver. Paz y Amor