Hey everyone,
Be careful riding around Uyuni.
Coming in from Potosi I fell asleep and woke up just in time to fall off the bike and break my pelvis.

I think the altitude is around 13,500 ft on the road in(4100meters).
I felt fine and alert just before conking out.

I spent 30 days in Uyuni, bones don't heal very fast that high up and I am getting old. I made TDF but Ruta 40 in Patagonia scared the sh*t out of me cause I thought I might go down again(90mph winds didn't help).

I rode home to the USA after TDF.

I do not recommend hurting your pelvis under any circumstances...it's extremely painful and the hospital in Uyuni had no surgeon, a 36 hour ambulance ride/wait would have been necessary for medical transport to be sent from Potosi if the road is dry. It could take longer! There is no helicopter so forget that.

Had I needed surgery I would have died.

I am a RN.
I believe my doctor was Cuban.

There was no morphine in the hospital I stayed in, no toilet seat, no bath and a very bad bed.
The only antibiotic they had was penicillin, I am allergic to that so I took some of my own Cipro and gave some to another Euro with pneumonia. I probably saved his life. The buses weren't running(the rains) so he got to a lower altitude by train, that took 2 days.

The nurses however were excellent and quite beautiful.
bill