Tip to Tip

Yesterday, I was on the phone for an hour with an artist in Santiago. She told me she didn’t think it would be a good idea for me to visit the Atacama desert when I come to Chile because the altitude could cause problems for my health. I thought deserts could only be low, like hot, dry basins. Frying pans over hell. But I was reading about it afterwards and the Atacama’s sloping down the left-hand…