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Friday, June 9th, 2006

After the girls left, I took the next bus to the border of Bolivia.  When I got off the bus, I was surrounded by bicycle taxis offering me a ride to the border.  “Why would I pay you to take me one block when I could walk it just as easily?”  They had no good answer for me.  I joked and talked with them for a little while, helping one with his English pronounciation, and walked my way to the border.  Once again, leaving Peru, I was stopped by the Peruvian police (this was a different border than I was at before, so the deal I struck for them not to check me next time didn’t apply.) [read on]

There’s something in the air…

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

We got into San Pedro de Atacama around lunchtime.  The French couple I was with was insistent on arguing with the tour agency about a lunch they were promised for that day.  I just stood outside, basking in the warm sun…oh it was so good to be warm again.  We were still at altitude (2000-some meters, 6000-some feet), but it was sunny and warm.  Just a few hours before I had been freezing…now I was gladly stripping off all my clothes.  After a long, fruitless argument, we left to find a hotel.  We were all freaking out about the prices, in shock coming from cheap Bolivia.  The best we could find was $12, which was about 3 times more than what I had consistently paid in Bolivia.  I grabbed a lunch (at a whopping $10, compared to $2-3 in Bolivia, sometimes less than $1) and headed on a tour to see the sunset in the Valle de la Luna (Moon Valley).

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