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My partner's working in the fucking Atacama Desert for three weeks, whilst I sit here merely existing in Haringey, North London.
My state of mind alternates between sheer bloody envy and dark maudlin panic, depending upon whether she's sending me photos and videos of this beautiful mad max landscape mix of weird cowboy pseudo-Americana or alpacas at sunset; or - I don't hear anything from her, and my mind dwells on what she's told me about their cars getting broken into and all the decidedly dodgy crack heads that are ambling about thr frontier-esque town she's staying in. Last night in bed I dreamt her blood-curdling scream and imagined all the worst that you hear about from Mexico, five thousand miles or whatever to her North,. I know it's stupid, but jesus,. the mind can race sometimes.
Gringo-murdering* junky nutters aside, it looks beautiful.
Oh, and she's going to visit the cerro dominador solar project and those fucking telescopes they have over there. *I'm* supposed to be the nerd in this relationship. Why am *I* not there?! EN-VEE. nngh.
* ok, she's not a gringo, but she is forin.
- Spent a month working out of Antofagasta a couple of years back. Everyone i met was very nice. Landscape is stunning, It's like being on Mars (i'd imagine)Morning_star
- Yeah, that's the exact comparison she made too. She says the people are lovely, but .. well, there's a bit of a drug problem around.Nairn
- Nice - there's a place called 'Tetillas' near Antofagasta, lol :)Nairn
- What were you doing there, M_S, if you don't mind me asking?Nairn
- not surprised you're a bit jealous - would love to go there. What's her gig? Just a one-off?Fax_Benson
- She travels a fair amount for her TV/Film job, but usually around Europe, so this is a bit of a treat for her.Nairn
- @Nain - We were doing some film and photography for Caterpillar on the huge copper mines.Morning_star
- For Caterpillar - Not JCB?! Traitor! :)
That sounds like a fun gig.
Not. At. All. Envious.Nairn - she could head a bit south to Copiapó and check out the blooming dessert...
https://www.youtube.…uan - How do you not know that she's shagging the gaffer?shapesalad
- I don't, but we have a solid relationship, so I'd be surprised. best not to presume other people's situations from your own experience, shape... .Nairn
- You should go with her one day. It’s an awesome place. You can also go to Uyuni.Chimp
- She's already suggested we should go, whereas I'm the one who pretty much stopped flying for a few years, because 'someone' has to, right?Nairn
- When she told me her flight over there was 14 hours, all I could think about was the carbon emissions. I'm fun at parties.Nairn
- I'm pretty good with geography, but this thread reads like a Borges list of imaginary places.garbage
- carbon emissions? :/ you're a good man, but don't think too much especially to the degree that you'll give yourself nightmares. do meditate nerd.Beeswax
- solution: 1-way ticket and live the rest of your life from that dominador solar station.uan