The Last Word On Nothing

In a celebration of a weird place few people go, except, apparently, People of LWON, we bring you Atacama Week.

The Atacama Desert is not a popular destination-wedding spot or a favorite girls’ weekend locale. I doubt anyone has thrown a bachelor party in the Atacama–although NOW I’ll bet someone will–and it’s rarely picked for family reunions (just TRY to get good catering on that blasted sand dune) or even interventions. It’s used, more often, in films as a stand-in for Mars.

The People of LWON are a quirky bunch, and it turns out at least five of us have visited this hyper-arid plateau on the Pacific coast of South America. Fortunately, being committed scribes, our intrepid travelers then put fingers to keyboard and waxed poetic. Or at least they jotted down a few notes about the place, notes they were willing to share with the rest of us.

We’ve lined up our favorite Atacama-related posts for this first sizzling week of July, only partly because none of us feels like writing something new. It’s also because, as it turns out, this dry-ass place is full of surprises. So please sit back, blast the AC, and enjoy!