Conspiracy theory

It is quite amazing how we take it for granted that there is this hulk of a rock floating around the earth. We walk around with it 'above' us like it's completely normal, which it is, but WOW!

Well yesterday I visited the moon, yes we walked on the moon. The atmosphere rarefied, dry, hasn't seen rain for years, warm in the sun and cold in the shadows. I haven't lost it, here's the proof:
















It is just like in the books, irrefutable evidence that my fellow astronaut, a size 10, set foot on the moon... Well that, or the Americans landed in the Atacama desert near Antofagasta in '69. Judging by the sticky tape and tinfoil Eagle twin brother in the Smithsonian, hhmmm I wouldn't be surprised.

It's not the kind of place I could live, but to be out there in the middle of vast nothingness is pretty darn special. Especially the drive in the evening when the light adds definition to the endless expanse and all its little bumps and creases. Without all the things that make life so simple you realise that you are not nearly so significant. Heading down off the Andes into the red sunset offers a two hour downhill drive, can't be many places where you can do that.

So some views of nothing on the way down the little hill...























Hope you have a magic week and get to feel like you're my fellow size 10 desertanaut, plodding the moon.