Feeling Small
Salt Wind Sky Air Sun Endless blue white horizons We leave no footprints When I wrote this, I was sitting in Airstream Trailer on the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. The vast expanse of the salt flats really drives home the fact that we humans are but tiny specks on the face of this earth. Our journey to the trailer took the better part of the day as we left from San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) climbing up to through the Andes to the border with Bolivia. Along the way, we stopped at the Emerald Lagoon, a geyser field, and the Red Lagoon. As we drove up to the latter, Eric, our guide, told us that it had shrunk significantly since his last visit just 3 weeks ago. Bolivia has been in the grip of a severe drought for the past several years and the lagoon is surely the worse for that. It is an important nesting site for 3 types of volcano flamingos (James, Andean, and Chilean) that call the Andes home and to seeing the lagoon this way drives home the i...