Under A Tilted Sky...

It was some time ago, relatively speaking less than a week ago, that Amber and I were taking a bus to Sucre. As the night fall came, Amber told me to look at the moon. As I looked over, a small cresent of the moon appeared. However, it was only upon a second look that I noticed that the moon was tilted...or perhaps it was the entire sky. Again, on our way to La Paz, I looked out at the half moon, shaped like a bowl, and saw it balancing on the edge of the mountain tops. It appeares that from the southern hemisphere the sky is tiled, so that the moon´s cycles travel from south to north, versus east to west.

The nighttime sky is breath taking here. With little to no light polution, we have had some of the most amazing views of a spectacular sky, painted with stars. I always thought in North Idaho that I knew what the milky way looked like, but I was so incredibly wrong. While on our tour of the Salar de Uyuni, it looked as if someone had taken a paintbrush, or perhaps a full bucket of paint and tossed it across the sky. What a beautiful sight to see.

While looking at the cloudless sky (which is practically every night), there is a part of me that makes me less homesick as I know that those vibrant stars and tilted moon are the same one that we are all under.

(P.S. Amber and I had hair wraps done today at a hair salon. They are fantastic and cost only $5!)