the coriolis effect

I should be asleep, because I definitely only slept from 8- 10:30 AM and somehow managed to stumble through the day. Relief at having finished...something, even if the vacation this week isn´t really spring break proper. But I´m off to Atacama tomorrow! If I can wake up at 5, the plan is to fly with Scott to Antofagasta, poke around the city, take a 5 hour bus to San Pedro de Atacama via Calama. After receiving a dubious look from the sernatur guy today when I asked about alojamiento in San Pedro, a frittered away cell phone minutes and made reservations for tomorrow night (half the world is going, apparently). Its the center of tourism for that part of the desert, though small enough that there aren´t atms and places don´t accept credit card. I hope the nights aren´t too cold and the days aren´t too hot! We´re returning via Antofagasta Monday (the plane tickets were a big fat splurge but I don´t have the fortitude of some people I know, who are taking a 21 hour bus ride to Buenos Aires- Atacama is like 18. I tell myself, instead of DC-Boston for thanksgiving. But Lan Chile has something of a monopoly here, no jet blue types around).

Thursday is Independence Day and Friday is Dia de los Militares, which is why the holidays.