Sorry no pictures

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It has been nine days of just non-stop traveling for Randy and myself. Every day we were either waking up on a bus, or setting an alarm after only a couple hours of sleep. And the best part is that I am not complaining! I have enjoy it very much. It all started back in Vicuña, the lovely town set in the Pisco Valley, surrounded by grape vines and want-to-be moutains. We spent our time there seeing the Pisco distillery and then the observatory where we saw Saturn, and even could see its rings! and saw other famous stars and such. Very educational, if not a little depressing. As our well english speaking guide told us "...there are a million stars in that nebula, a billion stars in that galaxy, and billion more in that... do you really think we are alone?..." Haha. After that we took a bus to La Serna, spent the day there just seeing the city and a museum and such, then about a 17 hour bus ride to San Pedro de Atacama. A nothing but tourist hub, made from cobble streets and clay houses. We arrived before anything was open, and even though it was such a small town (if you can call it that) we had no idea where we were or where to go. So we went to the only open place for breakfast, and waited till the sun got a little higher so the temperature wasn´t so cold. We found a ok place to stay then wasted no time getting our tours together. First rented some bikes, then went across the street got booked a tour for the geysers the next morning at four 4:30 am... then procced to ride our bikes to the third largest salt flat in the world to see Valle de la Luna. A very strange landscape, with large sand dunes, salt formations, and nothingness. After a very exosting ride through the desert and a un relenting hill, we managed to get to a nice vantage point to see the San Pedro set at the northern end of the slat flat. The only green thing for miles around. Everything else was just white, brown, or a variation of both. Next day we went to the geysers and saw and felt what 14,000 ft at 5 degress felt like, next to 180+ degree liquid spraying high into the air, or boiling in pools, some that people could, and one crazy man DID, get into (this one had been manipulated so it wasn´t so hot it would burn the skin). But I imagine this man regreted it after getting out of the water. After we got back to town after a couple other neat stops, we booked a 3 day jeep tour to Bolivia, and acrosse a national reserve and then acrosse the worlds Largest salt flat! (Our home of SLC has the second largest so now I have seen the three largest salt flats in the world!) I think I might break this post up into a couple ones becuase it will be a little easier to see the pictures. Well all these computers are too slow to upload pictures so you´ll have to do with just the text for now... Sorry..... I think Randy got some up tho so check his. And I felt like I should post so my mom knows I´m alive

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