The bus from Sucre to Santa Cruz de la Sierra is a long over-night shlog - about 15 hours. We pretty much just slept the whole way, as there were no exciting middle-of-the-night events like when we ran off the road half way to Uyuni.
It was a nice relaxing time in Santa Cruz. We stayed near the main square, in an extremely inexpensive but acceptable hostel, and mostly just walked around and read our books. We stayed two nights. On the second day we decided we would go downtown and see the art and history museums. Normally neither of us have much tolerance for such things, but since these ones were rumored to be free, and we didn't have much planned that day, we decided it couldn't hurt to check them out.
Sadly, we barely made it through one small exhibit before I realized I had left my raincoat in the cab. I would have been angrier at my myself if I had realized at that point in time that my BOSE in-ear headphones were in the jacket's breast pocket....... to look on the bright side, Brazil is HOT and now I don't have to carry the jacket around... Anyway that basically ruined my fragile museum tolerance and we ended up getting some fajitas instead, which I had been craving.
Earlier that morning we went to the bell tower at the Cathedral, and had a good time getting a view of the city and letting the breeze cool us down. We have been hot ever since we decended from the highlands of Bolivia (4000-5000 meters) and into Santa Cruz (something like 600 meters). It's nice to be able to walk up stairs without huffing and puffing again.
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