For Mom, Love Steve

You know you are in a more civilized country when you get on the bus and:

The road is paved.
There are painted lines separating the directions.
There are guardrails on cliff side turns.
The window trim hasn’t vibrated off making it able to hear… everything.
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Day one: Photos of the Salar (Salt Plains)

This is where salt comes from. A salt processing farm.
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The ?dry? salt flats.
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Me on a salt mound.
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A salt Hotel.
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The ?wet?salt flats.
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Fish island.
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Lake driving through the flats.
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Day two.

A spice field with a rainbow.
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llamas at lunch and for lunch. They also have these runty llamas called Alpacas that have the softest fur. Jackets made from their fur start out at $2000.
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For the Flamingo lovers out there.
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Weird formations.
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The red lake and more Flamingoes.
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Day three.

The geysers at pre-dawn. Freaking cold.
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The hot water lakes.
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Hot girls in bikinis, at 5000M, in the freezing cold, at 7am, not so hard if you live the good life. Steve?s beer commercial. Make that Fanta commercial.
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These are the must see before you die spiritual shots.
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The blue lake with the blue fog.
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The white lake next to the blue lake. It was cool when the two fogs were side by side. Missed it though.
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The regular lake. Just had a good background.
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Me and the girls.
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This shot represents the 11 hour ride back to Uyuni. It suuuuuuucked!!!!!!!!!!!
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The entrance to the Potosi mine that we visited. Say goodby to these guys because in ten years they will be dead. The lack of any breathing equipment causes a ... [Continue reading this entry]

I had a decent nights sleep with bouts of getting up and playing Counter-Strike and watching Spiderman. I figured I would just laze around and doze in and out. It did turn ... [Continue reading this entry]

OD= Overdose. I don't know if that is the right description, but maybe it would be best described as the reason for those ten thousand words squished on the one inch square label ... [Continue reading this entry]

We both were pretty tired and woke up a little later in the morning. I had neglected my Counter-Strike playing, so I played a little while Gabriella ... [Continue reading this entry]

The train pulled in at the ungodly hour of 5am and then forced us out as it had one more stop to go. I woke up feeling fairly good with a ... [Continue reading this entry]

Dark, freezing, and inhospitable are the only way to describe the plains at 4:30am. No time for morning tea or anything. Just pack up everything and hop into ... [Continue reading this entry]

We had a fairly late start with a 8am take-off. Breakfast was the usual tea with bread and marmalade. The girls had brought Marmalite for one of them ... [Continue reading this entry]

I was up fairly early since I wanted to pick up some supplies before we headed off, knowing that there wouldn't be many grocery stores to buy stuff. Toilet paper, cookies, ... [Continue reading this entry]