CHILE DAY 3: Atacama Desert

I feel like I'm on Mars. 

We are literally in the driest place on Earth.  Right now it's the end of winter so it's not boiling hot, but it is insanely dry and the day and night temperatures are extreme, but mild for the region. 70's during the day, 30's when the earth rotates away from the sun.  Not to mention we are at altitude.  I keep trying to compare this place to somewhere else but all I can think of is photos from the Mars Rover.  There is ZERO life here.  No plants, no birds, no snakes, no bugs under rocks. NOTHING.

CHILE DAY 2: Wall of Mountains

View of the Andes from a Chilean airliner heading North.

The crew flew North 700 miles from the capitol city of Santiago to Chile's second biggest city, Antofagasta.  For the entire flight, the Andes were out to the right side and the Pacific Ocean out the left.  It was trance-like, I kept pinching myself. I think the mountain sticking up is Aconcagua, the tallest mountain in the Western Hemisphere, at 22,841 feet. 

Santiago, Chile DAY 1

Santiago from the top of my hotel.  

Back behind the city center, this urban drainage take you to the mountains.

Yes, in Chile you can have it your way.

Once the sun falls behind the mountains, the spring day turns back into a winter night.  Time to bundle up.

It was magical flying low over the Andes at dawn.  First a deep blue streak high across the sky and then a vibrant orange that silhouetted the mountains out of the deep darkness of a 10 hour red eye flight from Atlanta.  Santiago was 25 degrees out when we stepped off the plane and by 2PM it was 75.  Chile fumigates all checked luggage for bugs so don't check your pillow!

Spring Ball

Marcy Playground, Brooklyn 2011

Grand Teton 2010

John Teten roped in on the Grand's Enclosure Peak.

We were on top of Enclosure around 9 AM after leaving the high camp
 (see below) just after 4:30 the same morning.  In the scramble to head
out in the dark to make the saddle by day break,  John could not find
his headlamp. No headlamp, no assent on the mountain.  We rigged a
 maglite to his helmet with duct tape and the rest is history. 

Grand Teton High Camp, Grand Teton National Park, WY

I live on Myrtle

Destruction and renewal in Brooklyn

Myrtle Avenue, Bed Stuy

Midtown Collage Afternoon Daydream at Work

51st Between Broadway and 7th Ave.

  Contrary to what some people may be saying, it's always good to look out the window.  Especially if in a new space, it could change the rest of your day.  

  Looking out the window on the 13th floor of an old theater district building I looked up into the canopy. Tho because the window would not open fully I was forced to tilt my head in such a way to actually see that I saw this crazy flow of lines and sky.