The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

As we rose toward the border the desert became covered in snow.

Which was apparently quite slippery, because we got into a horrible car accident.

This lead to an ill-conceived repair attempt.

Which was actually shockingly effective.

We arose at 4:30 AM to catch sunrise at the geysers before crossing the border into Chile.

Even with the hot water is was still quite cold.

But it looked very pretty.

Our first night in the salt flats we upgraded to stay in a hotel made of salt. It looked much better in our imagination.

The building walls are all made up of salt. Although not so tasty as Kerri found out.

This salt was a bit darker than that at the salt museum. There must have been more dirt mixed into the layers as the salt compressed.

But it was warm enough to keep us from noticing that the temperatures were freezing outside.

Instead of riding in the back of the 4×4 Kerri decided to hang out on the hood instead.

The whole lower half of the car was completely coated in salt and this was only the halfway point across the flats.

The car looked like it was turning white.

When we got far enough out into the flats you couldn’t see the ground beneath anymore and the hex pattern disappeared.

This left only a flat white surface for as far as you could see.

Here Matt examined one of our South American staple foods for bigger chips. Sadly only cars were inside.

We decided to try taking a walk anyways, maybe we could find one last chip.

After realizing all the chips were gone Kerri decided there could be only one course of action.

Squash those that ate her chips.

And eat them instead.

In the end Matt was forgiven.

And what would group travel be like without a jumping shot. There were a lot of cameras so some of these were more enthusiastic than others.