Prompt #129: Place-Based Writing

The Only Two Tourists in Cochabamba, or Writing about a Place in Crisis

Hi Friends,

The night before we crossed into Bolivia, my husband said he was worried because he had heard about express kidnappings in La Paz; this is where people are taken to cash machines, made to withdraw as much money as allowable, and then forced to hand it over to their “kidnappers.” In all the instances I had read about, the tourists were safely …