Thursday, October 11, 2007 All day on a bus. Literally. All Day.

Thursday, October 11, 2007 All day on a bus. Literally. All Day.

Amazingly I slept on the bus till about 8 am, and 8 hours of sleep on a bus is amazing! Unfortunately I woke up again to ridiculously swollen eyes. I spent the morning with the handkerchief over my eyes, partly to help the itching partly so that no one would see me. So the rest of the day I try to work a little ( I read about 50 pages of the book I had to read for my test on Wednesday) but really just slept and hung out. The TVs weren’t working on the bus, so no movies. Between the 7 girls and CJ we kept ourselves entertained and well fed. Every hour or some someone decided they were hungry and shared whatever goodies they’d packed. And we stopped every few hours and were able to get off.

So the hours passed one by one and the sun rose then began to set we finally made it to San Pedro around 7:30 pm. To be honest, the trip wasn’t that bad and I enjoyed being forced to relax. It was dark when we got off the bus but Roberto, our hostel (Hostel Iquisa) owner was there waiting to pick us up with a big van. We piled in and when we got to the hostel we asked Roberto about doing the Geyser del Tatio tour the next day. The tour leaves at 4 am and we figured since we’d spent all day on a bus we might as well go to bed early and wake up early the next morning for the tour. Roberto made a few calls and told us we were go to go. We just needed to be ready at 3:30 am! So we spend the evening settling in and everyone was in bed pretty early. Courtney and I had to write our journal entries that we have to do for our Poverty class, so we were up late trying to send them over the ridiculously slow computer. I got to bed a little before midnight, which at that point I was thinking of just staying up!