Day: 373

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One of our primary reasons we came out to San Pedro de Atacama is that it is the driest place on the planet and you can see the stars clearer here than anywhere else on earth.

Needless to say, after we got here and checked into our hostal, the clouds rolled in and a place that gets 2mm of rain a year decided to rain right then. We spotted a bar that was screening a football (soccer) match with Felicia´s favorite team, Arsenal, and Liverpool. I calmly drank a beer while she screamed at the screen along with all the other raging soccer fans. Afterwards it had stopped raining and we signed up for an astronomy tour with french astronomer, Alain Muary, who runs stargazing tours here.

(getting kicked out of the internet cafe for siesta hour, nmore to come)