High and Dry in The Atacama Desert
A Travel Story
After an all-night ride coming from Peru, we spend our time til dawn parked inside a local bus station, sleeping in our seats, waiting for the sun to rise.
Something to do with security after dark.
We don’t ask questions.
All to say, we’re a little stiff and irritable as we file over to a different bus taking us to San Pedro de Atacama. And not to be too literal, our trip becomes a brand-new day arising.
As I’ve said ad nauseum in my travel notes, we’re not city folk while traveling. For us, that’d be a self-defeating proposition.
Leaving civilization for … civilization.
So, imagine our unfeigned delight upon entering a little boonies town called San Pedro de Atacama, gateway to the highest dry desert in the world.
San Pedro de Atacama is where all travelers congregate, intending to use the small town as home base for their daily excursions into the…
