CHILE...When Snow Falls in the Atacama. "I like to drive. I want to take you where there are no roads...where tourists do not go." Then it started snowing. We couldn't believe it. The Atacama Desert is supposed to be the driest place on the planet. It doesn't rain they say. Yet it's snowing...the barren desert daubed with fluttering flakes...until a blanket of white is laid out before us...draping volcanoes...a frigid wind biting our nostrils...our faces red with excitement...flushed from suddenly BBQ heat turned to freezing cold. It's why we travel...on paths less trod...why the wind is our guide...and we groove to the blues as we ride along. We thought by leaving Bolivia by the back door we were leaving Heaven and returning to Earth. But somehow...we are returning to Heaven...Chilean Atacama Altiplano Desert Heaven. Ride on.
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