Today was a pleasingly uneventful travel day back to the US during which my cameras remained packed away. I decided to post this video depicting some of my overland travel from earlier in the week. Our caravan spent hours at a time for several days traversing the Bolivian altiplano, and this clip gives a pretty good sense of what that was like. This particular stretch was not very dusty. Other sections were so bad that I had to fashion a mask from my neck buff and still could taste the sand on my teeth.

The reward for all the jaw rattling, airway choking, driving was arriving at locations like the one below.

I arrived in Boston just after 9 PM, and Jeanine was there to greet me. It is true that absence makes the heart grow fonder, and I was delighted to see her. As it happens, Jeanine leaves for North Carolina tomorrow with Maya to visit my sister Mayela. She said we were like two ships passing in the night. I think it would be more accurate to say that we were like two ships docking in the night 🙂