Hola any and all!
It's been a fairly quiet week – very nice indeed. A bit of cooking at home, and my outings pretty much restricted to a few brief forays to the local Uni-Marc or Lider for food shopping. My one night out was a visit to the casino for dinner with the geo team and a visiting consultant/guru on IOCG systems – Fernando Henriques. Nice man, very short, but smokes like a chimney.
In some respects then, a bit boring, but just what I've needed, although it still doesn't mean I've been to bed before midnight. I'm planning my trip to San Pedro de Atacama for the coming long weekend (17-20th). It's looking like I'll cover about 2,000km, but will be worth every second, as the San Pedro area is (apparently) a major tourist highlight in this part of the world, with the usual snow-clad mountains and volcanoes – Licancabur being the close one – but also a historic town, Valle de la Luna, El Tatio geysers, thermal pools, Salar de Atacama, a couple of lagoons, some astronomical sites (radio telescopes) and a meteorite crater, not to mention riding past some of the worlds largest copper mines (Chuquicamata and Escondida).
I'm going to get a bit more practice in riding long distances with a blat along the Copiapo Valley to the south of town tomorrow with Mauricio. Lizette is away for the weekend, so the boys are out to play! I'll report in tomorrow.
Saludos.
A
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