We desperately needed a vehicle to get us back and forth to the land, some 20 minutes drive from Sucre. We wanted something that would take the rough and tough of climbing a steep and rocky hill every day, with the ability to transport workers and also give us enough space to sleep inside on camping trips.
Todobien (everything ok), as I optimistically named it, was parked outside our apartment one day with a 'for sale' sign posted in the window. It was a minibus, or trufi as they are known here, with 4 wheel drive capability and in seemingly good nick considering it was nearly 20 years old. Like most vehicles in Bolivia, it had been shipped from Japan into Chile and converted to left-hand drive before being imported into the country. We took it for a test drive up to the land and it coped well with the rough terrain. The papers were signed and the money handed over.
But Todobien was not todobien - the water pump packed up within a week, so we asked the mechanic who replaced it to check everything else was in order, as we were planning to drive it over the Andes to Chile.
To be continued.................
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