The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

Our car could not handle all the stress of the desert and we got a flat. It was right where Matt was sitting and he heard a bang sound but didn’t notice any change in driving. The driver must have as when we got out it was sunk down completely.

Which left us stranded all alone in the Bolivian desert.

I mean the 16 of us, in two cars, one of which was working, and at least 4 spare tires, and tons of water, were stranded a whole half hour from civilization.

With a herd of  guanacos looking on.

But it looks impressive.

Before we could go out to the cool parts of the salt flats we were taking to this tiny town. It was pretty much two rows of shops. At the far end was a salt museum. Although it was more of a salt building with other salt sculptures inside. I would call it more the Salt Gallery. This was a llama.

This was also a llama?

Obviously a work in progress. (Maybe another llama).

Downward facing dog yoga pose.

Seen from the other side.

A bird of some kind. Matt felt it could use a hat to look more fancy. It didn’t help and just made Matt look weird instead.

Our first stop in the Bolivian desert was to visit a train graveyard.

It was filled with rusting trains.

The trains used to be used to transport silver and coins from the mines.

But now the trains are sitting around rusting.

Slowly, because it is a desert.

So most of the moisture comes from spray paint solvents.

There were also tanks, which you wouldn’t think would be used for silver mining.

And springy bits.

I don’t think Kerri is the right engineer to get these going again. They seem to be a bit sunken as well.