30-second recap of days 2 and 3 in salty 4x4

Day 2 on 4x4 tour: After the 2nd worst night sleep ever (the first being the night I slept on a stair case in college), we hopped back into the 4x4 and Lucas pressed play on his audio cassette for the 11 time in less than 24 hours. I hate Bolivian music, especially when it is played in repetition like me commenting on my biceps.

We went to semi-famous "rock tree" rock sculpture, then went to the middle of the desert, where 5 of the passengers were enchanted by the mirage effect, and tried walking to a 'nearby' frozen lake that was actually 2.5 miles away. I waited in and around the car pleading with Lucas to go pick them up. He had none of it.. Sink holes was his number one counterpoint. Touche. Went to Lunch at some random dirt town and I played an 11-year old Bolivian girl (who was an attendant at a convenient store) named Maribel at tic tac toe on the side of our dusty Toyota. And by played, I mean, kicked her ass. I won two out of three, and we tied the third. I rule. We stayed at a nice hostel with real mattresses, hot water, interior space about 40 degrees (f) and a hidden area to store llama parts.

Day 3: Woke up for sunrise at 6:15AM. The sun rising is a surprisingly slow process. After freezing our asses off, it finally came up at 7:09AM. The third and final day of the trip took us through the Salt Flats, which is a 27KM by 15KM expanse of dried salt (the biggest in the world), where the main purpose of visiting is to take pictures making use of the zero horizon/zero perspective such as having one person squatting close to the camera with their pants down like they are taking a dump, and another person really far away imitating the turd portion of the process. While we didn't do that one, we tried some other ones which made me feel mildly creative for thinking of. The penis one being my Mona Lisa.

The island of Cacti (Cactus') was next, followed by Lucas blowing up at one of the girls in the 4x4 because she asked too many questions. I agreed with his assessment. To round out the trip, We saw a hotel made of salt, a dead armadillo carcass and Lucas' face light up upon receiving a $5 tip. (this was half of what he made for the entire 3 day tour). ps. tour companies in South America are thieves. So are the thieves in Bolivia.