(santa cruz, bolivia) behind

i've been putting off writing more details about chile because there is too much to write and i'm overwhelmed. but today i will sit and force myself to write it all up, or i will no doubt forget a lot of the little details that made it so incredible. the images are so slow to upload, i may wait till i return to supply pictures here.

like the way alfonso and nick saved a butterfly that was drowning in chocolate milk (was it chocolate or just milk?), even though cassie said it was already dead. (look at that sweet face)

and the way alfonso made expert donuts in the desert to generate dust then raced ahead to catch the cloud.

and our new experiment (version 1.0) with the ladder and laughing at ourselves

and then the improved version 2.0 with john's tripod

and hunting for dust devils

and our brief time in calama (the way we drove in circles looking for the church, the way we radioed blindly to cassie and john, whom we were supposed to be meeting "in the church square" to swap pierre for john, the way we teased pierre, the way they finally showed up and john took pierre's place (and food) at the croatian restaurant on the square, the way we randomly saw the long TV spot about our project and watched ourselves on TV at the restaurant, with my image and alfonzo's voice, the way we were low-grade celebrities after that with people recognizing us from (national) TV in multiple cities, the gorgeous drive down the coast listening to grupo yanquee, the way everything made us laugh)

there's just so much to write.

i don't know where to start.