...Diego drove us to his spot on the Salar, where we arrived about 1 ½ hours before sunset. It was the most gorgeous glass, the earth a perfect recreation of the sky above. We just stayed there, happily, for the next 2-3 hrs as the clouds moved and the sun fell and the grey and blue and purple and red and orange painting above and below changed every few minutes. It was unlike anything I had ever seen. We were at the peak of it all: mid-January. We were in the center of such a magnificent mirror. While most took selfies, I shot hundreds of pictures of shifting beauty. Every time I thought I had seen it all, it would dissolve into a slightly different exquisite iteration. I felt so blessed to be there, witness to it, part of it, sandwiched, immersed, swimming, out of breath....