Wednesday February 16th-

Today we slept late, packed up shop, and said goodbye to San Pedro de Atacama.

Roberto the desert hippie helped shlep our bags in his Scoobie Doo van.

We took a short bus to Calama (which Lonely Planet unapologetically calls a “shithole”) and spent two hours in the bus terminal eating greasy chicken and fries, and then hopped onto our second-to-last overnight bus to Arica: the tip-top city of Northern Chile.