listening to repeating

About a month after the event, I’m going to post a string of photos from my last day on Planet Earth, when the Atacama trip came to an end.  Some of these might be my favorite from the entire stay in Chile, namely because we went to El Tatio, the largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere and one of the highest in elevation in the world.

We were about 14176 feet up, and the temperature was approximately zero to five degrees Fahrenheit.

Since we left for the geysers before dawn, I slept most of the way up.  No photos of that.  But once we arrived, Brooken and I quickly realized that the place, at sunrise, is a touch steamy, as cold cold air clashes with wicked hot magma water:

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So here are even more photos from the Atacama trip, this time from day three, when we went to the Altoandina Lagoons (Laguna Miscanti and Laguna Miñiques).

On the way to the lagoons . . .

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Per my previous post, I’m going day-by-day through the photos and video that Brooken and I have of our trip to the Atacama.  Here are some shots from day two, which we began with a bike trip to Laguna Cejar.  En route, we were joined by a friend, who was far more laid back than pictured here . . .

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I have started going through all of the footage that Brooken and I have from our four-day trip (late July into August) to the Atacama desert, which is considered by many to be the driest desert (or even place?) on Earth.  During our four days, we honestly felt as though we were inhabiting an episode of Planet Earth (the TV series, not the Prince album or the Duran Duran song).  While there, I often found myself just standing and looking around, being overwhelmed in a wonderfully stupefying way.  Everything there, especially the climate and landscape, was obviously all incredibly new to me, and I’m still working on some words for it.

But maybe I should abandon that hope.  Or perhaps I don’t need the words.   Brooken and I have plenty of photos and video from the trip.  Here, during the next week or so, I’ll be uploading some of those photos and video, going day-by-day, starting with stills from day one.

There are not a lot of animals living in the Atacama, but there are certainly plenty of cacti:

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